Postcolonial Love Poem

Description

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: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Natalie Diaz
Published: 03/03/2020
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781644450147
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.40″ H x 8.90″ L x 5.90″ W

Award: 2021 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book – Literature
Award: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner – Poetry
Award: 2020 National Book Awards Finalist – Poetry

About the Author
Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona State University.