Diaz's Pulitzer-winning collection (2021) is the most important debut by a Native American poet in decades. Her Mojave identity, her queerness, her brother's addiction, and the Colorado River (which her people consider a living body) all intersect in poems of extraordinary sensory and political intelligence. The title is her argument: that love itself is a postcolonial act, that desire between brown and Indigenous bodies is an act of reclamation.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.