Born in a Second Language 2024 books rhythmic and forlorn

rhythmic and forlorn

poet and executive director of TruArtSpeaks

They're confrontational and forceful

I am thankful for Without the Frills

Adrienne Novy was partially hospitalized

Born in a Second Language 2024 books rhythmic and forlornAkosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedie, 2021 WINNER, 2019 Button Poetry Prize. Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, ones body, music, mother, mother tongue etc. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedies