Description
An electrifying collection of poems that transforms desire into an act of resistance, Postcolonial Love Poem confronts the erasure of Indigenous lives, lands, languages, and histories while making room for tenderness, pleasure, and renewal. Moving through the bodies of lovers, family, rivers, deserts, and nations, these poems explore queer intimacy, grief, colonial violence, memory, and the possibility of a future shaped by love rather than domination. Across shifting forms and expansive geographies, the collection refuses a single, linear history, instead creating a lyrical landscape where sensuality and sorrow, beauty and brutality, coexist. Fierce, intimate, and formally adventurous, it is a landmark work of contemporary poetry and a powerful meditation on belonging, survival, and the reclamation of desire.
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paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2020
80 pages
ISBN: 9781644451137
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.