Mother tongue -- Our Mother of Stone -- On the Isle of Lesbos -- Daughtering -- And They Didn't Die -- In Praise of the Great Cat -- * lingua: corral -- Five Bagatelles -- Fingerings -- Flare -- Symphony Board Dinner with Piano Soloist -- Blue Note -- Cooking with Miles -- Relaxing with Miles -- * lingua: tongue-tied -- Tell me something good -- A Song at Dawn -- Auxiliary -- Prelude to a Kiss -- First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time -- Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement -- After Tonsure -- * lingua: ladyfingers -- Procedure for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood -- Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands -- Electioneered (2013) -- Old News -- The Crystal River -- Profile -- After the Coup (or Not) -- How I Write -- * lingua: good taste -- Real Simple -- Way Out West -- Autumn Leaves -- Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear -- Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear -- morning, 11.9. -- Burying Willie, Our Lion -- Malick SidibeĢ's Camera Calls -- * lingua: gorgon -- Benin Bronze -- Unaccompanied Minor -- Children's Swings -- Pond in Museum Garden -- Ritual Object -- The Body Counts -- Wildcat -- at war -- * lingua: quick-tongued -- The Graves Suite -- Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue -- Three Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid -- Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid -- Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again -- Koan of the Great Cat -- * lingua: babble -- Stumbling Block -- Boy Lotus -- Infinitive -- Triptych -- When Thomas finally rolled up, I said -- Facing El Greco -- We are the darker sister.
Summary:
"Mother Tongue is the third collection of poems by Zimbabwean poet and writer Tsitsi Ella Jaji, whose previous work includes the poetry collections Beating the Graves and Carnaval and the book Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity"-- Provided by publisher.
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