Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Acoma Pueblo poet Ortiz spent

Acoma Pueblo poet Ortiz spent a winter in South Dakota

and contemporary nature and science writing

It's cold where they live

but keen-eyed kids will have spotted her hiding in the background throughout the story

Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Acoma Pueblo poet Ortiz spentIn 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