Tag: language

• Office Hours

  For N. D.

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  November 16, 2025

  curiosity, knowledge, language, literature, Poetry, reading, talent, teaching, wisdom

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• May (XVI)

  After Lucille Clifton.

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  May 16, 2025

  aliveness, language, pleasure, Poetry, survival, trouble

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• May (XIV)

  A personal essay.

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  May 14, 2025

  America, belonging, Chinese, Chinese Exclusion Act, French, identity, language, Poetry, Prose

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• Spring (V)

  An ars poetica. For my late Aunt Hollie.

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  April 3, 2025

  ars poetica, Belgium, elegy, Ghent, grief, language, loss, poetics, Poetry, spring

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• (母)語

  (M)other tongue.

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  March 26, 2025

  analogy, Chinese, English, grief, language, loss, mother tongue, parenthesis, Poetry

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• Weliswaar

  Een treurdicht over taal / An elegy for language.

  

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  March 24, 2025

  Dutch, language, loss, Nederlands, Poetry, taal, verlies

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• Bruges

  A reminiscence.

  

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  March 19, 2025

  Belgium, Bruges, Flanders, language, loneliness, Poetry, reminiscence, train

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• Conversation

  For my maternal grandfather. In Guangzhou, China.

  

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  January 14, 2025

  Cantonese, China, conversation, family, Guangzhou, language, Mandarin, memory, Photography, Prose

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• Fulfillment

  Having it all.

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  December 20, 2024

  absence, desire, fulfillment, language, Poetry

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• The Passenger

  On traveling, in time and space.

  

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  December 19, 2024

  Bilbao, China, Hong Kong, language, memory, nostalgia, Photography, Prose, Spain, travel

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