Pitiful sports The Animal People Choose a

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

combat in Vietnam

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

the problems of language loss

Pitiful sports The Animal People Choose aThis 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