West End Press

Publishing Voices
from the Margins

This collection by nila northSun’s includes poems from two chapbooks, Diet Pepsi and Nacho Cheese (1977) and Small Bones, Little Eyes (1981), and newer writings reflecting back on her later experience.

Her earlier poems established her firmly as a member of the Native American literary renaissance of the 1970s. They made a sensation at the time with their deadpan recording of horrendous events and their wry, self-deprecating sense of humor, often at the expense of the author’s astonishing physical beauty.

Never boring, northSun remains reflective, often humorous, and unrepentant.

5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-87-2 • $8.95

“The influence of her gritty, understated realism can be seen in the work of a whole new generation of Native American writers, such as Sherman Alexie.”

— Joseph Bruchac