Born in a Second Language 2024 books rhythmic and forlorn

rhythmic and forlorn

equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism

Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity

They're confrontational and forceful

Artistically and linguistically dynamic

Born in a Second Language 2024 books rhythmic and forlornAkosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedie, 2021 WINNER, 2019 Button Poetry Prize. Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, ones body, music, mother, mother tongue etc. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedies