ultimately reminding readers that caring for ourselves gives us the strength to care for others.” - High Country News “ turns to poetry for resilience, using well-crafted imagery, finely tuned language and sharp humor to navigate both stories of individual abuse and systemic oppression. ![]() Despite colonial abuse, ecosystemic collapse, and witnessing the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, Erdrich’s wit, heart, and tenacity shines through.”. “ overlaps personal and political concerns in Ojibwe wordplay. it is remarkable precisely because it posits the act of speaking, of how you learn it is you say, as a liberatory practice: the difficult action that will project us-as well as these poems-into a different and less abusive future together.” - Ploughshares “ Little Big Bully is richly challenging and uniquely rewarding. With incisive intelligence and revelatory wordplay, Erdrich examines the mechanisms of abuse, from colonizers who grabbed land to contemporary men who grab women’s bodies.” -(Minneapolis) Star-Tribune These poetic worlds carve new futures where healing, love, family, and self-sovereignty exist.” - Orion Magazine In a world where femicide runs rampant, Erdrich’s poems bellow-Don’t look away. “The Indigenous body, the woman body, the missing body, are all landscape in these powerful, provocative, and limit-breaking poems. 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 burst free of punctuation, rather than eschewed it for style.” - Lit Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2020” finds ways to still chevron the mind sky with wonder. Little Big Bully cycl into private moments, public grief, purposefully erased history and Native politics. “A major collection by a writer who deserves an audience a big as the light she’s throwing off. remarkable power.” -Ron Charles, The Washington Post Many of the pieces are enriched by the author’s dramatic use of extra spaces and broken lines. ![]() “The poems flow across a range of exigent challenges facing Native Americans, particularly women, and Erdrich takes full advantage of the wide format of this book.
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