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On January 19

I am only the Chickadee

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection

a clerk of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company

When My Brother Was an Aztec art descriptions"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