Mother Tongue

The following poems can be read in connection with the research on the many-faceted subject of the mother tongue, especially as it helps or hinders second language learners, that I have conducted with Monique De Mattia-Viviès over the past few years. The first poem has to do with transmission, and with children who find themselves the champions of other people’s causes – causes which were themselves perhaps transmitted. Speech disorder is seen as a kind of symptom. The poem can also be seen i

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