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Mother Tongues - Poems (Paperback)
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Mother Tongues - Poems (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry
Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems,
Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we
learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. This is what we have
done since before the border between wild and free was pinned The
body politics of personal narratives embed into poems that collect
the cycles of lives and languages that have shaped the wonders and
worlds of Africa and America. Jaji's artful verse is a three-tiered
gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the
beginnings and present. The tongues that capture and claim the
losses, ironies, and a poet's human evolution. How deep does your
language go back? The language of your childhood, the language of
our aging? How deeply do we wear and hear our fore-tongues? How
close do we sometimes forget they are? Mother Tongues is the gift,
a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to
the heart.
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