{"product_id":"mother-tongues-1","title":"Mother Tongues","description":"Winner 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.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55021857833304,"sku":"9780810141353","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780810141353_9858e414-5f55-4a40-864f-9088a2bc7dd8.jpg?v=1781703960","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mother-tongues-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}