Advance Praise for 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 burst free of punctuation, rather than eschewed it for style." --LitHub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2020"
"Renowned poet Heid E. Erdrich takes on environmental destruction, missing and murdered Indigenous women and more, in her characteristic voice: fierce, witty, personal and political." --Ms. Magazine
"Little Big Bully holds itself with a steady gaze, feet shoulder width apart. Positioned and ready, it is unflinchingly honest. Traversing a wide landscape--both the personal interior and social exterior--this book is made to confront, without the usual trappings of confrontation. How is that possible? There are 'conversations' to address concerns familiar to the Native community, specifically; at other times, poems directly address non-Native readers and public consciousness. Along the way, Erdrich connects the global project of colonialism with the feminine, the woman's body, the woman's experience, the 'bloody burning work' of her negation and violation. It's seamless. All this, and still, this book holds in its heart the limitless expanse of love and tenderness, and honestly so. Erdrich writes, 'This is not my grief [...] but a terrible a particular / deep beyond belief / deep enough / to own its depth / to be depth alone.' Through Erdrich, I have come to understand that it's not her grief, but ours, shared. Experienced together beyond belief." --Layli Long Soldier, author of Whereas
"This book broke me open. It electrified me and made my hair stand on end, tingling on my head like a mob of hypersensitive antennae. Whence came, or should I say, whence erupted, this gorgeous mind firing on all cylinders? Who is this poet orchestrating fierce musics of fragmentation and purifying anger? Behind her pitch perfect dark wit, fearless urgency and lively invention is a writer who dares to address our many selves (racial, sexual, spiritual) and their attendant assumptions. With great ardor, she captures bright, fractious, whirling bits of us, truths and contradictions, and channels them into poems that become a force of nature, like winged migration, or river rapids. This book that asks, among other amazing questions, what the most just and loving forms of self-sovereignty might look like, and what it might feel like to try to live them." --Amy Gerstler, author of Scattered at Sea
Praise for New Poets of Native Nations
"A wonderful introduction to the diverse landscape of native voices."
The Washington Post
"This collection is a breathtaking, wide-ranging work of art. . . . It is a modern classic."
BuzzFeed
"A revelatory anthology."
BBC Culture
"[New Poets of Native Nations] is distinctly contemporary in its urgency, diversity and vibrancy."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"This book is a wonderful, needed, vital breath of air. . . . New Poets of Native Nations is a wonderfully conceived collection, full of exciting juxtapositions, rich language and a fine equipoise between generosity and restraint. It's safe to say New Poets of Native Nations is an essential read."
Paste Magazine
