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London Review Bookshop Podcast

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You're Already Vietnamese Don't Get Noticed

Roland Bach would say the pum-tum of that mantra that I heard every day what does it mean to be already something. A lot of these poems are reckoning with that so if your if your otherness is already it's and it's therefore pre-linguistic in some ways. You then acquire the English language but you do so in a con in a context where it is to some extent as you're being gifted it it's also being denied youyour your ease with the English language. With particularly with poetic language is deemed as a kind of a front.

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