Pitiful sports when Sandy White Hawk was

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

and define us--and wield even the power to restore a broken family

Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Diné and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully reveal a love that can last for eternity

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

Pitiful sports when Sandy White Hawk wasThis 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