I write hungry sentences, Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.
She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language..
After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University.
Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. . .
The lion didn\'t want to do it-- He didn\'t want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep .
The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion\'s cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow W ith one swipe of a paw much like a catcher\'s mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars.
I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones.
These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams.
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.
I write hungry sentences, Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them
