Pitiful sports "our ancient stories have been

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

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

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

The Animal People Choose a Leader is yet another example of the late author's unique gifts as a storyteller

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

Pitiful sports "our ancient stories have beenThis 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