{"product_id":"mother-tongues-poems-paperback-softback-9780810141353","title":"Mother Tongues; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810141353","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMother Tongues\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTsitsi Ella Jaji (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810141353, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e96 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.162 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWinner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eMother Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is what we have done since before the border between wild and free was pinned\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003ci\u003eMother Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e is the gift, a collection of language unto itself that translates directly to the heart.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother Tongues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTable of Contents (i)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e mother tongue (1)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 On the Isle of Lesbos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Our Mother of Stone \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaughtering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd They Didn'\u003cbr\u003et Die\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Praise of the Great Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e* lingua: corral\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Bagatelles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFingerings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e flare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Blue Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bandwagon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cooking with Miles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Relaxing with Miles  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: tongue-tied\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tell me something good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Song at Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Auxiliary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prelude to a Kiss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e After Tonsure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: ladyfingers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Electioneered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Old News\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e After the Coup (or Not)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Crystal River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Profile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How I Write\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: good tast\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Real Simple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Way Out West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Autumn Leaves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Marvin in Stereo\/Right Ear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Marvin in Stereo\/Left Ear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e morning, 11.9.16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Burying Willie, Our Lion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Malick Sidibé\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cbr\u003es Camera Calls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: gorgon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Benin Bronze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unaccompanied Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Children'\u003cbr\u003es Swings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pond in Museum Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ritual Object\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Body Counts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e at war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wildcat \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: a quick tongue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Graves Suite\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Koan of the Great Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e * lingua: babble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We are the darker sister\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Boy Lotus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Three Lessons on a Friday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stumbling Block\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Facing El Greco\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Infinitive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555666915608,"sku":"9780810141353","price":12.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mother-tongues-poems-paperback-softback-9780810141353","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}