Pitiful sports a Black Creek citizen who

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Diné and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully reveal a love that can last for eternity

The Animal People Choose a Leader is yet another example of the late author's unique gifts as a storyteller

but (like Liliana Bodoc's haunting Saga de los Confines) in the Old World of the Western Hemisphere

Pitiful sports a Black Creek citizen whoThis poem begins where Bulimia ends or maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where the differential diagnosis is confused by decades of self made violence. Poverty, colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter one day, if not now Part self interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird's second collection detail the author's ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions