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You Had Studied English as a Child in Another Country
- Louisiana State University Press
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53 You Had Studied English a s a Child i n A not h e r Cou n t ry Before, our language churned goats’ milk in the stinking hut. It parsed contracts in offices of strip malls, negotiated Between wheat and the surfaces of grinding stones, graveyards and bulldozers, lepers and healing, girls And field hockey lessons, execution and dismemberment. Before, our language demanded an after. Instead an I Emerges now among the others, lonely as a clichéd Adam: First person. Singular. Present. Tense. Past perfect. ...
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