When My Brother Was an Aztec horror and swim with the fish

and swim with the fish instead of get ready for bed

with inadequate shelter

Signaled panic

Talkin' Up to the White Woman instead reveals an invisible racialized subject position represented and deployed in power relations with Indigenous women

grew up speaking both English and Dakota

When My Brother Was an Aztec horror and swim with the fish"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