Trials and tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma / The abandonment of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma / Softly... / The approximate wingspan of my favorite cancer... / Red hot / Janus / Piheet = three / Here in Dirty Shame / Midnight's ballroom / Things to consider when visiting the birthplace of your favorite obscure American nineteenth-century poet / After cancer, I carried on with myself / There was a time when Emily Dickinson lived among the Quohada Comanche / Twelve-hour buffalo robe calendar of a housefly / Acknowledgments.
Summary:
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.
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