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The poems in\u00a0Sister Tongue<\/em>\u00a0explore negative spaces\u2014the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet\u2019s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. This space between vibrates with loss and longing, arcing with tension. Fatemi\u2019s poetry delves into the intricacies of the relational space between people, the depth of ancestral roots, and the visceral memories that shimmer beyond the reach of words.<\/p>\n Language is one of the origins of the poet\u2019s displacement and the evidence of her non-belonging\u2014in both Farsi- and English-speaking communities. The long lyric essay which makes up the spine of this book plumbs years of wordlessness and a journey of reconciliation, as Fatemi asks how her tongue might be a passport to the otherwise inaccessible territories within a self.<\/p>\n The poems in Sister Tongue<\/em> metabolize longing while holding space for the poet\u2019s multiple inheritances, offering a vision of a porosity of self. Through the work of this reckoning, Fatemi reveals how connections between people and places might be forged.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n