Jake Skeets: Saad, Where We All Started
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Jake Skeets curates poems by Din\\xe9 poets centering on translation and the way that the Din\\xe9 language orients its speakers to the world, which exists before them. He shares Rex Lee Jim\\u2019s invocation of voice as what brings life (\\u201cLanguage\\u201d), Laura Tohe\\u2019s embodiment of meaning in rhythm and sound (\\u201cNilts\\xe1 Bi'\\xe1\\xe1d, Female Rain\\u201d and \\u201cNilts\\xe1 Bika', Male Rain\\u201d), and Luci Tapahonso\\u2019s blending of Din\\xe9 syntax with English (\\u201cHills Brothers Coffee\\u201d). Skeets closes with his poem \\u201cEmerging,\\u201d which traces the act of translation between English and Din\\xe9.
Watch the full recordings of Jim, Tohe, and Tapahonso readings for the Poetry Center on Voca:
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