imageofvoid:warsanshayar:Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a
imageofvoid:warsanshayar:Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // Fatimah Asghar, Partition // Aysha, Diaspora Defiance // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Kaveh Akbar, Do You Speak Persian? // Safia Elhillo, Date Night With Abdelhalim Hafez // Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues // Scherezade Siobhan, How to Welcome the Dead [ID 1: “For isn’t it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?”ID 2: What does it mean, to sing in the language of thosewho have killed your mother,would kill her again? Does meaning …ID 3: … faces. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. I’ve been carrying the old anthem in my mouth for so long that there’s no space for another song, another longue or another language. I know a shame that shrouds, totally engulfs. I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel. I’m bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.ID 4: … again. or some kind of spanish. you speak a language until you don’t. until you only recognize it between your auntie’s lips. your father was fluent in four languages. you’re illiterate in the tongues of your father.ID 5: - when my mother struggles to spell a word in englishI wans to break the entire languageinto little piecesso the edges of these letterswill stop cutting herID 6: … ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.ID 7: I don’t remember how to same home in my first language, or lonely, or light.I remember only delam barat tang shodeh, I miss you,and shab bekheir, goodnight.ID 8: i have an accent in every languageID 9 : The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what I wanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere elseID 10: “To love in one language. To pray in another.” /end ID] -- source link