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"I write "hungry" sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams."I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow!"W"ith one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars.""The lion didn't want to do it-- He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . "Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing profe

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Author

Diaz, Natalie

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619320338

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.38 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14