Featured artists include Georgie Jessup\,
Kerri Sheehan\, Susan Hwang\, and more!
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem o
f desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz&rsquo\;s brilliant second collectio
n demands that every body carried in its pages&mdash\;bodies of language\,
land\, rivers\, suffering brothers\, enemies\, and lovers&mdash\;be touch
ed and held as beloveds. Through these poems\, the wounds inflicted by Ame
rica onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tendernes
s: &ldquo\;Let me call my anxiety\, \;desire\, then. / Let me call it\
, \;a garden.&rdquo\; In this new lyrical landscape\, the bodies of in
digenous\, Latinx\, black\, and brown women are simultaneously the body po
litic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire\, languag
e is pushed to its dark edges\, the astonishing dunefields and forests whe
re pleasure and love are both grief and joy\, violence and sensuality.
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Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes\, a nat ion whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bod ies like hers and the people she loves: &ldquo\;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.&rdquo\; Postcoloni al Love Poem \;unravels notions of American goodness and creates somet hing more powerful than hope&mdash\;a future is built\, future being a mat rix of the choices we make now\, and in these poems\, Diaz chooses love.&n bsp\;
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