“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 cicadas 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
