Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno and contemporary nature and science

and contemporary nature and science writing

and informative--useful for people doing language revitalization work in their own communities

It's cold where they live

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

Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno and contemporary nature and scienceIn 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