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Mother Tongues: Poems

By Tsitsi Ella Jaji (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear. How deep does your language go back? Jaji’s artful verse is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore. The tongues … Continued

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Romantic Intimacy

By Nancy Yousef (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This book … Continued