Postcolonial love poem
(Book)
Author
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020].
ISBN
9781644450147, 1644450143, 9780571359868, 0571359868
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 23 cm
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Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Arlington - Adult | 811.6 DIA | Checked Out |
Bedford - Adult | 811.6/Diaz, Natalie | On Shelf |
Belmont Beech St. - Adult | 811.6 DIA | Storage |
Brookline - Adult | 811 Diaz 2020 | Billed |
Cambridge - Adult | POETRY Diaz, Natalie | On Shelf |
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781644450147, 1644450143, 9780571359868, 0571359868
Notes
Citation/References
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (May 22, 2021),http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
Description
"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.",Provided by publisher.
Awards
National Book Award finalist, 2020
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2021
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Diaz, N. (2020). Postcolonial love poem . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Diaz, Natalie. 2020. Postcolonial Love Poem. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem Graywolf Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem Graywolf Press, 2020.
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