Wakpa Wanagi Ghost River [Paperback]

Poetry. Native American Studies. These poems are 'porcupine quills,' beautiful and sharp. They draw blood. They make me laugh and cry. I love this book. —Sherman Alexie, Poet, fiction writer, screenwriter

Trevino Brings Plenty's poetry 'ignites a sunrise,' bearing witness to Indigenous America's most difficult and invisible realities. Faced with these urgent poems, we are again reminded of our constant fight for survival. Brings Plenty embarks on a telling that will inspire and challenge our notions of how we experience our modern colonial lives. —Sherwin Bitsui, Author ofFloodsong

Reading Trevino Brings Plenty's poems is a head adjustment. As hard as these poems work to defy the stereotype of Native American spirituality, they also act like ceremonies—new ones—the anti-vision quest, spirit guide avoidance, songs to survive shame, good days NOT to die. Trevino Brings Plenty is no sham- shaman, but he is a healer and a true one. —Heid Erdrich, Author ofCell TrafficandNational Monuments

Brings Plenty has come into his own power with this new book of poems. These are the poems of a hardcore rez visionary who is '…map(ping) the spirit world….' Each poem carries a light born of struggle, and like vision, each illumination has its cost…Personal history is utterly tied to the historical DNA of family, a place. Through the journey of these poems, a map emerges. In this map, you will find a way home. —Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet, musician, performer, professor

Trevino Brings Plenty has the soul of a poet, no doubt. In fact he might have two of them—the other used to belong to America, until he ripped it out of her still-beating heart and ate it. Like some NDNero Paganini, Brings Plenty's verbiage whirls away the death of the old millennium and feverishly writes in the new. Bring a bottle of something good to drink and watch it all go down. Epirel%