Pitiful sports and define us--and wield even

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

combat in Vietnam

the problems of language loss

but (like Liliana Bodoc's haunting Saga de los Confines) in the Old World of the Western Hemisphere

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