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Born in a Second Language
2019 Button Poetry Prize Winner
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, one's body, music, mother, mother tongue etc.
Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.
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, one's body, music, mother, mother tongue etc.
Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.
Book Details
- Publisher: Button Poetry
- Publish Date: Jul 6th, 2021
- Pages: 48
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9781943735921
- Categories: • Women Authors• African• American - African American & Black
About the Author
Afiriyie-Hwedie, Akosua: - Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie is a Zambian-Ghanaian poet who was raised in Botswana. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. She is a Hopwood and Meader Family Award winner. Akosua has received fellowships from Callaloo and the Watering Hole. Her work has appeared in Bettering American poetry, WusGood?, The Felt, and is forthcoming in Platypus Press.
Praise for this book
"So much power arrives from the author's ability to orchestrate form and content so that the whole is a symphony." -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic