Sister Tongue
Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
* Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
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Farnaz Fatemi is a founding member of the Hive Poetry Collective and was a writing instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her poems and prose appear in Catamaran Literary Reader, Crab Orchard Review, Grist Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and several anthologies, including Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora.
"Fatemi makes language think aloud and sing in these ruminative, beautiful poems."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"In Sister Tongue, Fatemi shines gorgeous light on the liminal space between languages, bearing witness to the joy and longing that accompany every act of translation."--Tracy K. Smith, from the Foreword
