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The Oldest Hands in the World

The Oldest Hands in the World is a volume of original poetry that represents both a creative investigation of exile (physical, cultural, and linguistic) and a creative interrogation of translingualism. Via its post-confessional and neo-deep image poetics, the poems serve as creative responses to, and considerations of, various notions of exile and trauma, as well as the effects of a writer’s transition(s) between languages. The varying poetic forms reflect the changes of, in Paul Ricoeur’s words, the speaker’s “idealist romantic self . . . replaced by an engaged self . . . after it has traversed the field of foreignness . . . altered and enlarged, othered.”