Abstract
“Badlands and Bison” is a fragmentary travel-fiction hybrid set in the mythic badlands of North Dakota. It merges reportage with invention, parody with elegy: a narrator half pilgrim, half comedian drifts from piano keys to prairie herds, searching for sincerity in a landscape that resists it. The form bends between essay and story, using humor, lyric observation, and shifting registers to question how we mythologize place.
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Ressler, Andrew
(2026)
"Badlands and Bison,"
The Cicadian: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://commons.und.edu/cicadian/vol1/iss2/2
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