Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure.
In her work, myth is simultaneously reified and undercut because it has to be." Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. Natalie Diaz: 'It is an important and dangerous time for language' Read more Her first collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec (winner of an American Book …
NATALIE G. DIAZ. Books: Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press, 2020) When My Brother was an Aztec (Copper Canyon, 2014) "Diaz both embraces and subverts mythology in whatever form it shows up—Indigenous, Western, counterculture, it doesn't matter. Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, she received her BA and MFA from Old Dominion University.