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Postcolonial Love Poem
About this book
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book. It demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language, land, suffering brothers, enemies and lovers - be touched and held. Where 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 dune fields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves. Her poetry questions what kind of future we might create, built from the choices we make now.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- 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 Donāt Love You Like I Love You
- Skin-Light
- RunānāGun
- Asterionās Lament
- Like Church
- Wolf OR-7
- Ink-Light
- The Mustangs
- Ode to the Belovedās 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
- Isnāt 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
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright