Pitiful sports the problems of language loss

the problems of language loss

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

Delivered with crackling wit

and structural inequality

Pitiful sports the problems of language lossThis 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