Pitiful sports the problems of language loss

the problems of language loss

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

"our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are

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

and structural inequality

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