Mother Tongues - Poems (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-4135-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8101-4135-3
Barcode:	9780810141353

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