Pitiful sports But then came Grandma Josephine

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

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

a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief

the problems of language loss

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

Pitiful sports But then came Grandma JosephineThis 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