Born in a Second Language 2024 books They're confrontational and forceful

They're confrontational and forceful

– Noel Quiñones

moving collection

equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism

Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity

Born in a Second Language 2024 books They're confrontational and forcefulAkosua 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