{"product_id":"postcolonial-love-poem-paperback","title":"Postcolonial Love Poem - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatalie Diaz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNatalie Diaz's highly anticipated follow-up to \u003ci\u003eWhen My Brother Was an Aztec\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of an American Book Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Love Poem\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003edesire\u003c\/i\u003e, then. \/ Let me call it, \u003ci\u003ea garden\u003c\/i\u003e.\" 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiaz 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: \u003ci\u003eLet me be lonely but not invisible\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Love Poem\u003c\/i\u003e unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope--in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Diaz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eWhen My Brother Was an Aztec\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stonewall Book Award (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2020)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760248553760,"sku":"9781644450147","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d438e820c37e84314339fbc882232aef.webp?v=1780175521","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/postcolonial-love-poem-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}