Pitiful sports the problems of language loss

the problems of language loss

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

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

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

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

Pitiful sports the problems of language lossThis 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