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FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY When My
Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that
foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual
passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply
rooted cultural history. Natalie Diaz's arresting debut explores a
brother's addiction and its devastating effects on a household,
while offering a political critique of our nations and their pasts.
It acknowledges absences and uncomfortable silences, as well as
conjuring vivid voices and presences, from Antigone and Houdini to
Huitzilopochtli and Jesus. Stolen cowboy boots, violins on fire; a
mariachi band playing in the bathroom, a black bayonet carried
between the shoulder blades; the beauty of busted fruit, the sight
of hellish visions - Diaz both revels and reveals through her
distinctive use of language and imagery, bringing to life every
intimate and communal encounter, blooming abundance from scarcity.
The result is a wrenching portrayal of sacrifice, want, despair and
fortitude that feels truly transformative.
Who says having twins means you’ll never sleep again? Let
Natalie Diaz of Twiniversity and The Sleep Lady® Kim West help you
get better sleep for the whole family—from birth—with gentle,
proven tips, tools, and techniques. Raising twins doesn’t have to
fill you with sleep dread. There are many small ways to help them
sleep just a little bit better right now—long before your duo is
ready for sleep training—and together, these can add up to
significantly better sleep for everyone! As founder of
Twiniversity, Natalie Diaz has welcomed millions of parents into
the rewarding world of parenting twins. Now, she and longtime
friend Kim West, known around the world as The Sleep Lady®, turn
their attention to helping parents of twins navigate their
babies’ early months. In month-by-month chapters that are easy to
read (even in the middle of the night!), The Newborn Twins Sleep
Guide breaks down: How feeding, attachment, soothing, and
temperament all factor into your babies’ sleep—with strategies
to navigate the unique demands of caring for two The key
developmental milestones from birth through five months and how to
encourage sleep at every stage How pre-term birth impacts this
early period (and therefore sleep!)—and how to support your duo
while they “catch up†Success stories from real twin parents
who’ve been there (and survived!) Alternatives to the “cry it
out†method once your babies are developmentally ready to
self-soothe What parents and caregivers need to know to make sure
they’re taking care of themselves, too It’s easy to get
overwhelmed by conflicting advice on sleep training, nap coaching,
sleep schedules, and more. The Newborn Twins Sleep Guide provides
clear guidance and a gentle approach to help you feel better about
the entire sleep process, from A to ZZZs.
Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book, an anthem
of desire against erasure. It demands that every body carried in
its pages - bodies of language, land, suffering brothers, enemies
and lovers - be touched and held. Here, the bodies of indigenous,
Latinx, black and brown women are simultaneously the body politic
and the body ecstatic, and portrayed with a glowing intimacy: the
alphabet of a hand in the dark, the hips' silvered percussion, a
thigh's red-gold geometry, the emerald tigers that leap in a
throat. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to
its dark edges, the astonishing dune fields and forests where
pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
Natalie Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation
whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of
bodies like hers and the people she loves. Her poetry questions
what kind of future we might create, built from the choices we make
now - how we might learn our own cures and 'go where there is
love'.
The creator of Twiniversity delivers the ultimate survival guide
for parents of twins
The rate of twin births has risen 79 percent over the last three
decades, and continues to increase. A mom of fraternal twins and a
national guru on having two, Natalie Diaz launched Twiniversity, a
supportive website with advice from the twin-trenches.
"What to Do When You're Having Two "is the definitive how-to guide
to parenting twins, covering how to make a Birth Plan checklist,
sticking to one sleep schedule, managing double-duty breastfeeding,
stocking up on all the necessary gear, building one-on-one
relationships with each child, and more.
Accessible and informative, "What to Do When You're Having Two" is
the must-have manual for all parents of twins.
American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who
never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is
Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really
gives a thought to his uncle's family living in the United States.
Skye and Hiroshi's lives are thrown together when Hiroshi's family,
with his grandfather (who is also his best friend), suddenly moves
to the U.S. Now Skye doesn't know who she is anymore: at school
she's suddenly too Japanese, but at home she's not Japanese enough.
Hiroshi has a hard time adjusting to life in a new culture, and
resents Skye's intrusions on his time with Grandfather. Through all
of this is woven Hiroshi's expertise, and Skye's growing interest
in, kite making and competitive rokkaku kite flying.
Sport has always been central to the movements of both the
nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of
the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens's four gold-medal victories in the
1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's protest at the 1968
Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of
his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a
place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because
they are allowed to be unified as one energy. Bodies Built for Game
brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our
traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that
athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is
it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we
root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring
contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif
Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich,
Toni Jensen, Ada Limon, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith,
and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning
its games.
Entering its twelfth year, Best New Poets has established itself as
a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry
lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is
made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a
full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling
represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the
country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as
some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online
competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here
provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality
of poetry as it is being practiced today.
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