Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Louise and her younger sister

Louise and her younger sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana in the 1940s

Acoma Pueblo poet Ortiz spent a winter in South Dakota

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describe features of Ojibway life

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Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Louise and her younger sisterIn 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