POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body ca rried in its pages bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers be touched and held as beloveds. Th rough these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: Let me ca ll my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden. In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown wom...[Leer más]