Bitter English zoekt jou

Bitter English zoekt jouAhmad Almallah Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the homeand parentsyou left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative language and becoming estranged from your native tongue, which you use less and less as you become more ensconced in the United States. This is the story told by Ahmad Almallah in Bitter English,

radical politics and reggae rhythms

Anne Carson in Glass

Reina María Rodríguez

Hilda Hilst

“Despite the rigorous structure that undergirds her work—or more likely

and sometimes equally

MA speaks a furious incantation in the past tense

Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet

INTERVENIR/INTERVENE asks questions no one should have to ask: in a climate of state- sponsored violence

Extracting the Stone of Madness comprises all of her middle to late work

Wie Nietzsches poëzie al wel kende

and the way that we’re constantly at the mercy of words and phrases as they’re deployed by the authorities