Notes on Mother Tongues Joyelle McSweeney

Notes on Mother Tongues Joyelle McSweeneyMirene Arsanios Colonialism, class, and giving what you dont have A long form essay on becoming a mother and not having a mother tongue written for Ugly Duckling Presse's pamphlet series (2020).

moral tales & other awkward constructions" is passionate

"cunting" Chaucer and Shakespeare

A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading

Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully

A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls

For Gansel

Seared by the world and everything in it

one full of words that are profound

Rodaan Al Galidi

As Anselm Berrigan has written: "Doug Lang's poems are the only poems that matter

beyond the literal world into dream-habitats conjured through language’s occult structures

compression fantasies