I am only the Chickadee

On January 19

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection

Familiar or little-known

while the depth of the author's knowledge allows us to see the ways in which these different practices can be rooted in the wisdom of the body

When My Brother Was an Aztec art I am only the Chickadee"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