Native traditions scrape against contemporary urban life in Flood Song.
Sherwin Bitsui is a young Diné Navajo poet drawing on traditional song, storytelling, and surrealistic poetics..
Poet Bitsui is at the forefront of a new generation of Native writers who resist being identified solely by race, yet this work is filled with allusions to Dine (Navajo) myths, customs, and traditions.
Native traditions scrape against contemporary urban life in Flood Song