Poetry. Native American Studies. "These poems are 'porcupine quills,' beautiful and sharp. They draw blood. They make me laugh and cry. I love this book."--Sherman Alexie, Poet, fiction writer, screenwriter
"Trevino Brings Plenty's poetry 'ignites a sunrise,' bearing witness to Indigenous America's most difficult and invisible realities. Faced with these urgent poems, we are again reminded of our constant fight for survival. Brings Plenty embarks on a telling that will inspire and challenge our notions of how we experience our modern colonial lives."--Sherwin Bitsui, Author of Floodsong
"Reading Trevino Brings Plenty's poems is a head adjustment. As hard as these poems work to defy the stereotype of Native American spirituality, they also act like ceremonies--new ones--the anti-vision quest, spirit guide avoidance, songs to survive shame, good days NOT to die. Trevino Brings Plenty is no sham- shaman, but he is a healer and a true one."--Heid Erdrich, Author of Cell Traffic and National Monuments
"Brings Plenty has come into his own power with this new book of poems. These are the poems of a hardcore rez visionary who is '...map(ping) the spirit world....' Each poem carries a light born of struggle, and like vision, each illumination has its cost...Personal history is utterly tied to the historical DNA of family, a place. Through the journey of these poems, a map emerges. In this map, you will find a way home."--Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet, musician, performer, professor
"Trevino Brings Plenty has the soul of a poet, no doubt. In fact he might have two of them--the other used to belong to America, until he ripped it out of her still-beating heart and ate it. Like some NDNero Paganini, Brings Plenty's verbiage whirls away the
