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Diaz, Natalie.
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Indigenous peoples -- America -- Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Diaz, Natalie.
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
MARC Display
Postcolonial
love
poem
/ Natalie Diaz.
by
Diaz, Natalie.
Graywolf Press, 2020.
Call #:
811.6 D542p
Subjects
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
ISBN:
9781644450147 (hc.)
Description:
105 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-100).
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: “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. 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: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.”
Postcolonial
Love
Poem
unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses
love
."--Goodreads.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2021.
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection
811.6 D542p
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