Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.

Author/creator Diaz, Natalie author.
Format Book
PublicationMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]
Copyright Date©2020
Description105 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Portion of title Love poem
Contents 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.
Abstract 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.
Awards noteNational Book Awards finalist, 2020.
Genre/formLove poetry.
Genre/formPoetry.
Genre/formLove poetry.
Genre/formPoetry.
ISBN9781644450147 (paperback)
ISBN1644450143 (paperback)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3604 .I186 P67 2020 ✔ Available Place Hold