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About this book
2025 Southwest Books of the Year
In 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 Diné 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 present and the past. From her ethereal connection with her saguaro muse, Hosh, to the intricate tapestry of her relationships with Diné relatives and her awakening to the complex world of toxic masculinity, McCrary brings together DIY zine aesthetics, life forms of juniper and mountains, and the beauty of Diné Bizaad to tell of the enduring bonds between people and place.
Journeying from the Colorado Plateau to the Sonoran Desert and back again, Blue Corn Tongue invokes the places, plants, and people of Diné Bikéyah and O'odham jewe? in a deeply honest exploration of love, memory, and intimacy confronting the legacy of land violence in these desert homelands.
In 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 Diné 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 present and the past. From her ethereal connection with her saguaro muse, Hosh, to the intricate tapestry of her relationships with Diné relatives and her awakening to the complex world of toxic masculinity, McCrary brings together DIY zine aesthetics, life forms of juniper and mountains, and the beauty of Diné Bizaad to tell of the enduring bonds between people and place.
Journeying from the Colorado Plateau to the Sonoran Desert and back again, Blue Corn Tongue invokes the places, plants, and people of Diné Bikéyah and O'odham jewe? in a deeply honest exploration of love, memory, and intimacy confronting the legacy of land violence in these desert homelands.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Diné Bikéyah + Colorado Plateau + Painted Desert
- How the garden grew
- Blue Corn Woman
- A relocated grief
- ShĂma and ShĂ*
- Brother Bacchus
- Two Diné Men at 8 p.m.
- To change and to be the five fingers of her
- Manifesto for my unborn daughter
- Book of Ćeetso
- Ć
- Oâodham Jeweáž + Sonoran Desert
- Hymn for Hosh
- For Indigenous lovers only
- Desert derriĂšre
- TC coincidence? I think not!
- Round Dance Rain
- Sweet, sweet Huñ(ny)
- Natives with Neural Activity
- Grass God
- Ha:sañ + Hosh + Saguaro + The place where White Oâodham corn grows
- Ha:sañ
- Self-portrait as a Saguaro
- Weaving through a metacognition so blue, I drive six hours for you
- Self-portrait as a Saguaro fruit
- For Simon
- Window Rock, AZ
- Native girls that read Sappho write things like . . .
- Juniper + Gad + Where the Blue Corn Grows
- ShĂ beloved
- You bring out the Navajo in me
- Massage my eyes, PLEASE
- ShĂ Bro, ShĂ dĂĄâĂĄkâĂ©h
- My blue corn space is SACRED, K!? (PS protect your blue corn space girls)
- A mixtape for a 30-something-year-old punk girl
- 3 grrrls from N. Country Part I
- 3 grrrls from N. Country Part II
- 3 grrrls from N. Country Part III
- Blue Wound
- Visiting the KâĂ© in Bordertown, U.S.A.
- Will you still see the land in me?
- A Fighter Flowers
- Wounded Corn Still Grows
- This
- Blue / corn / sky / rises above like an AsdzĂĄĂĄ in love
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author