Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi In Search of Dustie-Fute " —María do Cebreiro

" —María do Cebreiro

of life lived cheek by jowl with death

the result of an unprecedented collaboration between a team of poets

both for ourselves and for the planet

Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi In Search of Dustie-Fute " —María do CebreiroSlip ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicious abandon. In a landscape populated by levitating snailfish, sotto voce therapists, melancholic kittiwakes and collapsing stage sets, boundaries blur, languages merge, vision is partial and identity nothing