and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life

" writes Joy Harjo

Waa’aka’ follows the title character

We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers

"History" (Gaa Ezhiwebag)

Pitiful children and inspiring call for loveThis 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