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Postcolonial Love Poem is an
anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz&rsquo\;s brilliant second
collection demands that every body carried in its pages&mdash\;bodies of l
anguage\, land\, rivers\, suffering brothers\, enemies\, and lovers&mdash\
;be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems\, the wounds inflict
ed by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and
tenderness: &ldquo\;Let me call my anxiety\, \;desire\, then. / Let me
call it\, \;a garden.&rdquo\; In this new lyrical landscape\, the bod
ies of indigenous\, Latinx\, black\, and brown women are simultaneously th
e body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire\
, language is pushed to its dark edges\, the astonishing dunefields and fo
rests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy\, violence and sensua
lity.
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Diaz defies the conditions from which she write s\, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasu re of bodies like hers and the people she loves: &ldquo\;I am doing my bes t 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.&rdquo\; P ostcolonial Love Poem \;unravels notions of American goodness and crea tes something more powerful than hope&mdash\;a future is built\, future be ing a matrix of the choices we make now\, and in these poems\, Diaz choose s love. \;
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