Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno describe features of Ojibway life

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The family is packing up

Follow along as Ria shares her dance journey--from dreaming of her future to performing as a professional--accompanied by striking illustrations that depict it while bringing her graceful movements to life

It's cold where they live

Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno describe features of Ojibway lifeIn 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