Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. In her soaring poems, she deepens and revises the word 'postcolonial', demonstrating not only that love persists in the aftermath of colonialism, but that it provides a means of transcendence, too. It includes brilliant, winged cooperation from cranes which seem to belong to another world (she writes from a crane sanctuary in Nebraska). Free UK p&p over £15. I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver you, The size of stones – each a cabochon polished, by our mouths.
There is a touch of Sharon Olds about the physical precision of Diaz’s poetry, its bravado and uplift. Lest one think this book is all fire, light, and fury, there is a sly humor that edges in ... It’s a pleasure (and perhaps a momentary relief) to find oneself chuckling out loud at these witty and yet wickedly apt commentaries.
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Natalie Diaz's 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. In this episode, Natalie Diaz, author of the new poetry collection Postcolonial Love Poem, discusses relating to her body as an athlete, how she conceives of her anxiety, and what we’re talking about when we talk about poetry. Diaz explores possession, makes us think about what it means to be possessed by a country, a lover, a river. She is fearless about naked (in every sense) truths and always surprising. This knowledge, however fraught, emboldens Diaz to celebrate her survival as a queer Aha Makhav woman living in the 21st century ... the book rejects stereotypes that cast Indigenous people as monocultural ... Conveying clear ideas through crisp, dazzling images, Diaz’s poems typically unfold in long lines grouped into short stanzas. I, your lapidary, your lapidary wheel, The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand, until a flash flood bolts the arroyo, lifting them, in its copper current, opens them with memory –. • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz is published by Faber (£10.99). Related: Natalie Diaz: 'It is an important and dangerous time for language'. Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. I learned the names of gems I had never heard of until now – Natalie Diaz is one of them. In “Postcolonial Love Poem,” Natalie Diaz takes a traditional form and makes it her own, centering the experiences of queer women of color.
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