Description |
105 pages ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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. |
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. |
Awards |
National Book Award finalist, 2020 |
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2021 |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Poetry.
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Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Love poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst01002821
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Literature.
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Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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Genre/Form |
Love poetry. (OCoLC)fst01726661
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Love poetry.
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Poetry.
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Added Title |
Love poem |
ISBN |
9781644450147 (paperback) |
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1644450143 (paperback) |
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9780571359868 (pbk.) |
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0571359868 |
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9780571359875 (ePub ebook) |
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