Sy Hoahwah is the author of several other poetry books and chapbooks, including Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride and Velroy and the Madischie Mafia (both from UNM Press).

"Sy Hoahwah has written poems that tear down the bridges between the Comanche and America. He travels the warrior road. His inheritance and obligation is to protect and guard his peoples' way. Hoahwah's wry sense of justice and literary knowledge paints a new road on the tapestry of Indigenous resistance."—Lance Henson, author of The Missing Bead: Poems for the Cheyenne "Sy Hoahwah's Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma remarkably represents a Comanche-centric narrative that creatively migrates through our tribal geography and history. There is a hero's journey in search of vengeance, justice, and redemption in a creative world that reflects our own mixed, and mixed-up, selves in search of something deeper and more meaningful as human beings."—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

• Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, OklahomaBlood and BowtieThe Jolly Rancher IncidentPea-ahThe Legend of the Floating CoffinOther Prose PoemsThe Abandonment of Dirty Shame, OklahomaSoftly . . .The Approximate Wingspan of My Favorite Cancer . . .Red HotJanusPiheet = ThreeHere in Dirty ShameMidnight's BallroomThings to Consider When Visiting the Birthplace of Your Favorite Obscure American Nineteenth-Century PoetAfter Cancer, I Carried On with MyselfThere Was a Time when Emily Dickinson Lived among the Quohada ComancheTwelve-Hour Buffalo Robe Calendar of a HouseflyAcknowledgments

Sy Hoahwah is the author of several other poetry books and chapbooks, including Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride and Velroy and the Madischie Mafia (both from UNM Press).

"Sy Hoahwah has written poems that tear down the bridges between the Comanche and America. He travels the warrior road. His inheritance and obligation is to protect and guard his peoples' way. Hoahwah's wry sense of justice and literary knowledge paints a new road on the tapestry of Indigenous resistance."—Lance Henson, author of The Missing Bead: Poems for the Cheyenne "Sy Hoahwah's Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma remarkably represents a Comanche-centric narrative that creatively migrates through our tribal geography and history. There is a hero's journey in search of vengeance, justice, and redemption in a creative world that reflects our own mixed, and mixed-up, selves in search of something deeper and more meaningful as human beings."—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

• Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, OklahomaBlood and BowtieThe Jolly Rancher IncidentPea-ahThe Legend of the Floating CoffinOther Prose PoemsThe Abandonment of Dirty Shame, OklahomaSoftly . . .The Approximate Wingspan of My Favorite Cancer . . .Red HotJanusPiheet = ThreeHere in Dirty ShameMidnight's BallroomThings to Consider When Visiting the Birthplace of Your Favorite Obscure American Nineteenth-Century PoetAfter Cancer, I Carried On with MyselfThere Was a Time when Emily Dickinson Lived among the Quohada ComancheTwelve-Hour Buffalo Robe Calendar of a HouseflyAcknowledgments

Sy Hoahwah is the author of several other poetry books and chapbooks, including Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride and Velroy and the Madischie Mafia (both from UNM Press).

"Sy Hoahwah has written poems that tear down the bridges between the Comanche and America. He travels the warrior road. His inheritance and obligation is to protect and guard his peoples' way. Hoahwah's wry sense of justice and literary knowledge paints a new road on the tapestry of Indigenous resistance."—Lance Henson, author of The Missing Bead: Poems for the Cheyenne "Sy Hoahwah's Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma remarkably represents a Comanche-centric narrative that creatively migrates through our tribal geography and history. There is a hero's journey in search of vengeance, justice, and redemption in a creative world that reflects our own mixed, and mixed-up, selves in search of something deeper and more meaningful as human beings."—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands

• Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, OklahomaBlood and BowtieThe Jolly Rancher IncidentPea-ahThe Legend of the Floating CoffinOther Prose PoemsThe Abandonment of Dirty Shame, OklahomaSoftly . . .The Approximate Wingspan of My Favorite Cancer . . .Red HotJanusPiheet = ThreeHere in Dirty ShameMidnight's BallroomThings to Consider When Visiting the Birthplace of Your Favorite Obscure American Nineteenth-Century PoetAfter Cancer, I Carried On with MyselfThere Was a Time when Emily Dickinson Lived among the Quohada ComancheTwelve-Hour Buffalo Robe Calendar of a HouseflyAcknowledgments