Pitiful sports a Black Creek citizen who

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

combat in Vietnam

but (like Liliana Bodoc's haunting Saga de los Confines) in the Old World of the Western Hemisphere

the problems of language loss

"our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are

Pitiful sports a Black Creek citizen whoThis poem begins where Bulimia ends or maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where the differential diagnosis is confused by decades of self made violence. Poverty, colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter one day, if not now Part self interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird's second collection detail the author's ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions