Contents ( 37)
- POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM
- POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM
- 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
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
toward all we have been born for, and carry, and have yet to become of love.
NATALIE DIAZ was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, won an American Book Award. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, as well as a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded the Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumna of the Ford Fellowship. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
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