“Thank you for sharing your gifts. Your words uplift, strengthen and feed the imagination. You are a credit to your ancestors and living relatives.”
—Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee), activist & poet
“Lotni’s poems are on some kind of rehydration mission. I read them, shake my head, then read them again. It is good to know when I sit on my porch with my cigar and whisky that I am looking up at “the inner skull of the creator that is the sky.” How did I forget this? This is a poet living in the same time as you and me but reaching out to trees and stars and heartbreak and not being afraid to curate meaning from them. It’s hard to talk about hope these days, so sometimes a mountain or lake will have to stand in. I am glad to be walking with this poet.”
—Dr. Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
“There is a unique quality in the poems of Lotni that opens portals of perception long forgotten and dormant in our culture these days. A number of words come to mind after reading the poems: cyclicality, emergence, blossoming, return, participation, return, synchronicity, congruence, coherence…
An intrinsic relationship to the land, its rhythms, songs, stories and how they are an echo, a reverberation, a sprouting of messages that come from stars and other ancient etheric beings in the primordial realms of this universe.
A gift that enables us to feel held, sung to and nurtured by both earth and sky in their many manifestations, from the vast infinite mysterious to the small personal intimate core of our being.”
—Miguel Rivera, translator of In the Courtyard of the Moon, selected poems of Humberto Ak’abal
“Listen up! Lotni has stories for you, stories someone might have told you once but you’ve since forgotten. In Lotni’s poems, everything is alive. He will help you remember the cantaloupe’s songs and that your body can be a boat in any stream. Lotni is ‘so full of love’ that he ‘cannot walk straight.’ That’s how you’ll feel after drinking these poems.”
—Katharine Rauk, author of Buried Choirs