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Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.

Summary:

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers - be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.

Record details

ISBN: 9781644450147
ISBN: 1644450143
Physical Description: 105 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Postcolonial love poem -- Blood-light -- These hands, if not Gods -- Catching copper -- From the desire field -- Manhattan is a Lenape word -- American arithmetic -- They don't love you like I love you -- Skin-light -- Run'n'gun -- Asterion's lament -- Like church -- Wolf OR-7 -- Ink-light -- The mustangs -- Ode to the beloved's hips -- Top ten reasons why Indians are good at basketball -- That which cannot be stilled -- The first water is the body -- I, minotaur -- It was the animals -- How the Milky Way was made -- Exhibits from The American Water Museum -- Isn't the air also a body, moving? -- Cranes, mafiosos, and a Polaroid camera -- The cure for melancholy is to take the horn -- Waist and sway -- If I should come upon your house lonely in the west Texas desert -- Snake-light -- My brother, my wound -- Grief work.

Awards Note:

National Book Awards finalist, 2020.