Little Big Bully

Little Big Bully"A major collection by a writer who deserves an audience a big as the light she's throwing off . . . Little Big Bully cycl[es] into private moments, public grief, purposefully erased history and Native politics. [Erdrich] finds ways to still chevron the mind sky with wonder . . . The improvisational torque of Little Big Bully means the book is always moving, into imagined story cycles, love poems, riffs, prose poems so vital it feels like they've

I kept a few chapters

“One of the most innovative collections of poetry I’ve come across in a long time

women and trans folks

and pepper whose tonic and healing properties are less widely known

When Omakayas is twelve winters old

and dreams

and domestic pork and beef

the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation

a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard

exhilarating

pour forth a mesmerizing story

of the origins of the Dakota people