02888cam a2200325 4500 564322934 TxAuBib 20220427120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781619320338 1619320339 B00AHGT8C8 Amazon 8d0e6417-7a89-4190-8cdf-e7311388c02b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1276069 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Diaz, Natalie. When My Brother Was an Aztec [Libby eBook]. Copper Canyon Press, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 436kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother's addiction to methamphetamine|</p> <p>"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.</p> <p>I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia<br /> like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones.<br /> The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick<br /> against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow!</p> <p>With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion<br /> pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars.</p> <p>The lion didn't want to do it—<br /> He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd<br /> this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . .</p> <p><strong>Natalie Diaz</strong> was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.</p>. Fiction. Poetry. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/when-my-brother?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/when-my-brother?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/when-my-brother?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID