Pitiful sports Delivered with crackling wit

Delivered with crackling wit

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

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

Pitiful sports Delivered with crackling witThis 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