Postcolonial Love Poem Av Natalie Diaz

<p><b>WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY</b><br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE<br>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION<br><i><br>Postcolonial Love Poem</i> 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¿ silvered 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 dune fields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.<br><br>Natalie Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation w