Wakpá Wanági, Ghost River

“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’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 E. Erdrich, author of Cell Traffic and National Monuments