Proudly Canadian 🍁
Sitewide Sale Alert: Save An Extra 10%* On Everything

Postcolonial Love Poem

Author:
Binding: Paperback
List Price: $21.00
Our Price: $4.20 CAD
Sale Price: 3.78 CAD
Qty Avail: 39


ISBN: 9781644450147
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Page Count: 105
Publication Date: 3/3/2020
Size: 9.00" l x 6.03" w x 0.48"
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Poetry American - Various
2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry

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.

You May Also Like

Similar Items