Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert

Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the DesertIn a voice that is jubilant, irreverent, sometimes scouring, sometimes heartfelt, and always unmistakably her own, Amber McCrary remaps the deserts of Arizona through the blue corn story of a young Din woman figuring out love and life with an O'odham man. Reflecting experiences of Indigenous joy, pain, and family, these shapeshifting poems celebrate the love between two Native partners, a love that flourishes alongside the traumas they face in the

who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention

The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling

As empire encroached upon their domain

A Girl Called Echo

Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction

stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered

both Indigenous and European

model Ashley Callingbull and photographer Thosh Collins reappropriate the trend of wearing 'Native' clothing

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

where he witnessed the events that culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre

and psychic fabrics of their familial and community lives

and so many others whose presence has changed her life