Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride
64 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:15 Feb 2021
ISBN:9780826362216
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Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Fractured storytelling for a fractured world, Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride draws readers into a world that appears eerily familiar but unsettling as well. Fierce, visceral, sometimes funny, and wholly original, Hoahwah's poems will linger in a reader's dreams long after she's closed the book.

A cabinet of curiosities; a descent/ascent into otherworldly realms that can only be described through the forensics of poetry. Keenly imaginative and deft, imagery-rich, these poems combine iconography and artifacts with an omniscient peculiarity, and at times a downright creepiness that asserts itself viscerally, which is to say, in the very best and most thrilling of ways--like I stayed at the haunted carnival too long.'--Tiffany Midge, author of The Woman Who Married a Bear: Poems
With skulls piling up poem by poem and poetic figures like vampires, ghosts, zombies, a 'snake bone hag,' and a singing 'raccoon-witch-cannibal-monk,' Sy Hoahwah has perhaps invented Comanche goth. In his distinct 'sinister-bent' humor, Hoahwah claims the landscapes of Oklahoma ('Indiahoma'), the Ozarks, and other hinterlands. . . . These poems are 'like butterflies released by the breath of a vampire,' as horrifying and familiar as they are beautiful and rare.'--Heid E. Erdrich, author of Little Big Bully

Sy Hoahwah is also the author of Velroy and the Madischie Mafia: Poems and the chapbook Night Cradle. He is Yapaituka Comanche and Southern Arapaho.

Hillbilly Leviathan
Biography
Toward Mt. Scott
Noted to Be the Definitive Bright Morning of Ten Thousand Calendars
Pineola
Ever Since I Can Remember
County Line
It's Been 145 Years; I am Still Surrendering to Ft. Sill
Glitter
Greasy Voice
Hinterlands
In the Month of Cleaning Family Plots
Tuhuvitu
Á Conques
Non-Native Version
KJV
Kung-Fu of Being Silent
Beget
Logging-Trail Angel
Mourners
Native Child Star
Six Fingers
Skin Petals
Last Comanche Allotment at the Edge of the World
Typhoni
What Is Left
Church for the Disliked
Before We're Eaten
Black Haw
Cries by Night with Head below, Feet Above
When Snake Was Dove's Brother-In-Law
Struck Meat
Jagged Winter Trail Designs
Trying to Communicate with a Cracked Droid, Ouija Board, Magic 8 Ball, and Coffee Cans about a Message Transcribed on Bible Paper Dipped in Three-Day Old Coffee, Then Buried with Demonically Inspired Fish Bones along the Banks of the Buffalo River
Namesake
Hell's Acre

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