| Description |
105 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Potcolonial love poem ; Blood-light ; These hands, if not Gods ; Catching Copper ; From the desire field ; Manhattan is a Lenape word ; American arithmetic ; They don't love you like I love you ; Skin-light ; Run'n'Gun ; Asterion's Lament ; Like Church ; Wolf OR-7 ; Ink-light ; The Mustangs ; Ode to the beloved's hips ; Top ten reasons why Indians are good at basketball ; That which cannot be stilled ; The first water is the body ; I, Minotaur ; It was the animals ; How the Milky Way was made ; Exhibits from the American Water Museum ; Isn't the air also a body, moving? Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid camera ; The cure for melancholy is to take the horn ; Waist and sway ; If I should come upon your house lonely in the West Texas Desert ; Snake-light ; My brother, my wound ; Grief work. |
| Summary |
"Postcolonial Love Poem 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."--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781644450147 (paperback) |
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1644450143 (paperback) |
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