Born in a Second Language 2024 books – Noel Quiñones

– Noel Quiñones

rhythmic and forlorn

poet and executive director of TruArtSpeaks

Artistically and linguistically dynamic

Adrienne Novy was partially hospitalized

Born in a Second Language 2024 books – Noel QuiñonesAkosua 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