About this item
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic object lessons. What is truth now? Who are we now? How do we find answers through the smoke of human destructiveness? The past for Indigenous people, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. Here, survivors shout back at useless cautionary tales with their own courage and visions of future worlds made well.
About the Author
Heid E. Erdrich edited NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS for Graywolf Press and is the author of five books of poems. Her non-fiction memoir-in-recipes, Original Local, was a City Pages Top Food Book for 2014. An interdisciplinary scholar, visual arts curator and editor, her collaborative award-winning "poemeos" have been screened internationally. Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media, her most recent book, incorporates poem videos via QR codes. Heid is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the Augsburg College Low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program.
