Mother Tongues: Poems
Autor Tsitsi Ella Jajien Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2019
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. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.
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. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues speak the beginnings and the present; they capture and claim the losses, the ironies, and a poet’s human evolution. Mother Tongues is a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810141353
ISBN-10: 0810141353
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810141353
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
TSITSI ELLA JAJI is a poet and scholar from Zimbabwe. Associate professor of English at Duke University, she is the author of two books of poetry: Beating the Graves, awarded honorable mention for the 2015 Sillerman Prize, and Carnaval. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and in journals including Black Renaissance Noire, Prairie Schooner, Bitter Oleander, New Coin, and Jalada.
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Mother Tongues
Table of Contents (i)
Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii
mother tongue (1)
On the Isle of Lesbos 2
Our Mother of Stone 3
Daughtering 4
And They Didn’t Die 5
In Praise of the Great Cat 6
* lingua: corral 7
Five Bagatelles 8
Fingerings 10
flare 11
Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist 12
Blue Note 13
Bandwagon 14
Cooking with Miles 15
Relaxing with Miles 16
* lingua: tongue-tied 17
Tell me something good 18
A Song at Dawn 19
Auxiliary 20
Prelude to a Kiss 22
First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time 24
Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement 25
After Tonsure 26
* lingua: ladyfingers 27
Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands 28
Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood 29
Electioneered 30
Old News 32
After the Coup (or Not) 33
The Crystal River 34
Profile 36
How I Write 37
* lingua: good taste 38
Real Simple 39
Way Out West 40
Autumn Leaves 42
Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear 43
Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear 44
morning, 11.9.16 45
Burying Willie, Our Lion 46
Malick Sidibé’s Camera Calls 47
* lingua: gorgon 48
Benin Bronze 49
Unaccompanied Minor 50
Children’s Swings 51
Pond in Museum Garden 52
Ritual Object 53
The Body Counts 54
at war 55
Wildcat 56
* lingua: a quick tongue 58
The Graves Suite
Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue 59
3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid 62
Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid 63
Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again 64
Koan of the Great Cat 66
* lingua: babble 67
We are the darker sister 68
Boy Lotus 69
Three Lessons on a Friday 70
Stumbling Block 71
Facing El Greco 72
When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said 73
Infinitive 74
Table of Contents (i)
Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii
mother tongue (1)
On the Isle of Lesbos 2
Our Mother of Stone 3
Daughtering 4
And They Didn’t Die 5
In Praise of the Great Cat 6
* lingua: corral 7
Five Bagatelles 8
Fingerings 10
flare 11
Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist 12
Blue Note 13
Bandwagon 14
Cooking with Miles 15
Relaxing with Miles 16
* lingua: tongue-tied 17
Tell me something good 18
A Song at Dawn 19
Auxiliary 20
Prelude to a Kiss 22
First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time 24
Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement 25
After Tonsure 26
* lingua: ladyfingers 27
Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands 28
Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood 29
Electioneered 30
Old News 32
After the Coup (or Not) 33
The Crystal River 34
Profile 36
How I Write 37
* lingua: good taste 38
Real Simple 39
Way Out West 40
Autumn Leaves 42
Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear 43
Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear 44
morning, 11.9.16 45
Burying Willie, Our Lion 46
Malick Sidibé’s Camera Calls 47
* lingua: gorgon 48
Benin Bronze 49
Unaccompanied Minor 50
Children’s Swings 51
Pond in Museum Garden 52
Ritual Object 53
The Body Counts 54
at war 55
Wildcat 56
* lingua: a quick tongue 58
The Graves Suite
Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue 59
3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid 62
Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid 63
Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again 64
Koan of the Great Cat 66
* lingua: babble 67
We are the darker sister 68
Boy Lotus 69
Three Lessons on a Friday 70
Stumbling Block 71
Facing El Greco 72
When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said 73
Infinitive 74
Descriere
Mother Tongue is the third collection of poems by Zimbabwean poet and writer Tsitsi Ella Jaji, whose previous work includes the poetry collections Beating the Graves and Carnaval and the book Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.