Postcolonial Love Poem Classics so the Black fat can

so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation

Newly shorn of his dreadlocks and his past

he finds himself confronted by questions he'd never imagined

Daisy Jones & The Six

everywhere

Postcolonial Love Poem Classics so the Black fat canPostcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. Let me call it, a garden." In