"Poetry. Native American Studies. "Trevino Brings Plenty's tales focus on Native survival in the face of modern American displacement. He is a young Indian Odysseus, head up, going forward strongly, only occasionally getting distracted by urban sirens singing their songs of destruction. A dynamic, new Indian voice."—Adrian C. Louis"
"Poetry. Native American Studies. "These poems are 'porcupine quills,' beautiful and sharp. They draw blood. They make me laugh and cry. I love this book."—Sherman Alexie, Poet, fiction writer, screenwriter "Trevino Brings Plenty's poetry 'ignites a sunrise,' bearing witness to Indigenous America's most difficult and invisible realities. Faced with these urgent poems, we are again reminded of our constant fight for survival. Brings Plent ..."
" Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from wh ..."
""Brings Plenty has come into his own power with this new book of poems. These are the poems of a hardcore rez visionary who is '. . . map(ping) the spirit world . . ."
"Four Sioux Poets Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke
Warm Water Adrian C. Louis. in shimmering delight, delirious in the strength of
our youth. Our fertile flanks foamed in the sunlight & our hooves did not skitter ... “
Sioux” is rapidly falling out of favor with those it is applied to, I used the word
because of the mixture of tribes involved. Two of the writers, Joel Waters and Kurt
Schweigman (who chooses ..."
Removing Skin by BringsPlenty, Trevino L Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2014 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4992-2067-4, ISBN: 1-4992-2067-7
"“Embracing an identity of twenty-first century west coast urban squalor, Trevino Brings Plenty creates a madly cruising momentum barreling down the page instantly akin to narrowing proximities within a panorama of cityscapes, apartments and dives. The resulting irresistible fervor brings a flavor of first to a long-awaited banter. Hold on; this one is fully loose.” —Allison Adelle Hedge Coke “A laugh heard around the world, a mandatory ..."