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Natalie G. Diaz

Author of Postcolonial Love Poem

8+ Works 922 Members 27 Reviews

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Works by Natalie G. Diaz

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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributor — 227 copies, 7 reviews
New Poets of Native Nations (2018) — Contributor — 165 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 123 copies, 4 reviews
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Contributor — 122 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 115 copies, 3 reviews
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (2021) — Contributor — 112 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2014 (The Best American Poetry series) (2014) — Contributor — 89 copies, 1 review
You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves (2021) — Contributor — 84 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2021 (2021) — Contributor — 72 copies
100 Queer Poems (2022) — Contributor — 71 copies
The Best American Poetry 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 70 copies, 2 reviews
Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017) — Contributor — 68 copies, 3 reviews
Pathetic Literature (2022) — Contributor — 50 copies, 1 review
Latino poetry : the Library of America anthology (2024) — Contributor — 45 copies
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 35 copies
Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (2011) — Contributor — 28 copies
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Contributor — 13 copies

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Birthdate
1978
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Disturbing and powerful. Diaz disembowels the ravages an addict subjects the family to - the hopelessness of even achieved love when need is near infinite - the sustained rage at arbitrary inequalities - and spills the guts some times clearly, frequently with haunting obscurity.
Natalie Diaz helps me understand something of what it is like to be indigenous in America. Her poems are personal, sometimes humorous, sometimes dark, often erotic, sometimes prose, always strong.

Her prose poem, "The First Water is the Body", is already a favorite. It seems to be about everything, about people, history, a river, language, literature, inequality, environment, and much more. It fills me with both some understanding and with considerable feeling. I've read it more than once show more and plan to continue rereading, hoping to see deeper into it. The other parts of this collection are also as good. show less
Na minha última aula na especialização sobre filosofia de mulheres alguém comentou que nos povos em que as mulheres são associadas com a água a igualdade de gênero é mais presente.
Lendo essa maravilhosa obra de Natalie Diaz a epifania se fez presente no seu constante tratar do corpo, um corpo em forma de rio, um corpo fluído não binário.
O que nos leva a outro momento de um dos seus poemas que nos traz o poder da linguagem em tradução, uma linguagem que não está nem cá nem show more lá, não é a língua original, mas tampouco é a língua outra, a tradução é por si só uma fluidez não binária, um riocorrente, riverrun.
Esse livro saiu no Brasil pela Fósforo, não sei se na tradução eu teria todas as epifanias que tive o lendo no original, já que se faz uma língua outra e por isso mesmo a manifestação inconsciente se dá em um novo formato, só sei que foi uma experiência intensa e inesquecível.
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Diaz, in her poetry collection, talks about the struggles of living with a brother who is addicted to Meth. She talks about how her family deals with it vs. how she deals with it, living on the reservation, and other aspects of her life. As always, Diaz's voice is provocative, visceral, and deeply emotional. She reaches for a place in you that you've bottled up and attempted to throw away, and she makes you face it. While I've not had to watch a family member go down the spiral of addiction, show more I know people who have, and the way Diaz writes about it is personal, beautiful, and terrifying. show less

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Works
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Members
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Rating
4.1
Reviews
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ISBNs
23
Languages
4

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