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this is so brutal (so clarion and so brutal) that I can only read a couple pages and then put it down for weeks

“Seek and ye shall /
seek: I wanted to die, but death /
Is no remedy for having been born”. The tree of knowledge

“I listen for your mother in your voice and cannot / know if I find her. “ translations from the mother tongue (one of the best so far)

“I touched his face with disbelief, / I tried to hold his hand but he snatched it away, as if he were ashamed of / dying,” brorderlands

incredible storytelling through verse, her deep connection to her homeland is palpable