Little Big Bully

Zusatztext Praise for Little Big Bully : “The poems [in Little Big Bully ] flow across a range of exigent challenges facing Native Americans, particularly women, and Erdrich takes full advantage of the wide format of this book. Many of the pieces are enriched by the author’s dramatic use of extra spaces and broken lines . . . [Erdrich has] remarkable power.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post “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.” — Lit Hub , “Most Anticipated Books of 2020” “The Indigenous body, the woman body, the missing body, are all landscape in these powerful, provocative, and limit-breaking poems. In a world where femicide runs rampant, Erdrich’s poems bellow—Don’t look away. Enough. Enough. These poetic worlds carve new futures where healing, love, family, and self-sovereignty exist.” — Orion Magazine “A ceaseless innovator . . . With incisive intelligence and revelatory wordplay, Erdrich examines the mechanisms of abuse, from colonizers who grabbed land to contemporary men who grab women’s bodies.” —(Minneapolis) Star-Tribune   “ Little Big Bully is richly challenging and uniquely rewarding . . . it is remarkable precisely because it posits the act of speaking, of how you learn it is you say , as a liberatory practice: the difficult action that will project us—as well as these poems—into a different and less abusive future together.” — Ploughshares “[ Little Big Bully ] overlaps personal and political concerns in Ojibwe wordplay. Despite colonial abuse, ecosystemic collapse, and witnessing the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, Erdrich’s wit, heart, and tenacity shines through.” —WBUR.org “[Erdrich] turns to poetry for resilience, using well-crafted imagery, finely tuned language and sharp humor to navigate both stories of individual abuse and systemic oppression . . . ultimately reminding readers that caring for ourselves gives us the strength to care for others.” — High Country News “[ Little Big Bully ] is laced with dark humor and shines with incisive wit.” — Electric Literature “[Erdrich] writes with an eye for detail and an attention to how language can both reveal and conceal truth . . . [ Little Big Bully ] models how to stand, see and be seen, and resist.” — Poets & Writers “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 honestl...

Product details

• Authors: Heid E Erdrich, Heid E. Erdrich
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780143135920
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313592-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Poets; National Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama