Pitiful sports when Sandy White Hawk was

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

Delivered with crackling wit

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

combat in Vietnam

Pitiful sports when Sandy White Hawk wasThis 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