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"I Will Regard These Two People with Amazement": Dutch Poets on Their Immigrant Parents

May 2023

Miniature Houses in Amsterdam

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A flowering wisteria branch

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Black and White: Three Poems

By Nisrine Mbarki

they speak different languages but will learn each other’s

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

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Shadows in a dark room

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Ancestors: Two Poems

By Alfred Schaffer

well you’re right we’re stone dead / nothing to worry about

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

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Family in a tunnel

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Because of a Woman: Two Poems

By Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

I would praise your bravery when you were twenty-eight / when you boarded an airbus a330 a child in tow

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison