Pitiful sports and define us--and wield even

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

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

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

combat in Vietnam

Pitiful sports and define us--and wield evenThis 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