Bitter English Waar is het lam? June Jordan’s generous body of

June Jordan’s generous body of poetry is distilled and curated to represent the very best of her works

Published in Amsterdam by Phil Baber's The Last Books

and care contain the possibilities of shame

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Bitter English Waar is het lam? June Jordan’s generous body ofAhmad Almallah Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the homeand parentsyou left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative language and becoming estranged from your native tongue, which you use less and less as you become more ensconced in the United States. This is the story told by Ahmad Almallah in Bitter English,