Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi In Search of Dustie-Fute For the first time

For the first time

profound collection

the result of an unprecedented collaboration between a team of poets

as neo-Nazis marching in the US recall her grandmother’s flight from Nazi Germany

published in 1994

Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi In Search of Dustie-Fute For the first timeSlip 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