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Postcolonial Love Poem is Natalie Diaz’s striking second collection, calling for the recognition of every body—of language, land, river, and relationship—as beloved. The poems allow the wounds inflicted by American history upon indigenous peoples to bloom into pleasure, tenderness, and joyful resistance. They illuminate the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women as both political and ecstatic, pushing language to its borders of grief and sensuality. Diaz’s work confronts the erasure of her own identity and that of those she loves, urging a future built on love rather than mere hope.
First publish date: 2020
Genre: Poetry/Love Poetry
Authors: Natalie Diaz
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