Postcolonial Love Poem

Author: Diaz, Natalie

Brand: Penguin

Color: White

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 128

Release Date: 01-09-2020

Part Number: 9780571359868

Details: Short list Ed for the forward Prize for best collection poetry book society recommendation postcolonial love poem is a thunderous river of a book, an Anthem of desire against erasure. It demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language, land, suffering brothers, enemies and lovers - be touched and held. Here, the bodies of indigenous, latinx, black and Brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic, and portrayed with a glowing intimacy: the alphabet of a hand in the dark, the hips' Silver percussion, a thigh's red-gold Geometry, the emerald tigers that leap in a throat. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing br>dune fields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Natalie 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. Her poetry questions what kind of future we might create, built from the choices we make now - how we might learn our own cures and 'go where there is love'.

EAN: 9780571359868

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English