MyOTHER TONGUE Caglar Koseoglu

MyOTHER TONGUE Caglar KoseogluRosa Alcal Here are poems that reckon with the histories of family, generations, language and love: how our tongues are mothered or not, how we are given to and abandoned. Alcal read from the book at UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems series, a recording of which is online.

The voices of the poem do not correspond with a succession of past

In de dreigende storm is de geliefde een eiland

voor een mens

*we’ve got any milk

across the pages of each book

Set in a shifting narrative environment

A people's history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labour activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for 'regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature

and celestial objects ignored or rejected by mainstream world cultures

'If capital makes life a seething

Balts is zijn dertiende

Also included are a critical introduction by Rosa Alcalá

Philip Huff