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I Love How I Write in French
St. Louis poetry sort of is grappling with the meaning of writing in the language of your parents butchered's undoing German, he says. Dewida essentially defended one of his colleagues who had been accused of sexual assault and I must have also been thinking about Dewida in that time period. When I said it's my favorite writer in French, when I lived in France I was so struck by how there were rows for literature, fixed own essay, whatever. And then there was the corner that was in French, which is the say, you know, the literature from the colonies, Francophone literature, which is not French literature.
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