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/ a small deprivation
of life lived cheek by jowl with death
as neo-Nazis marching in the US recall her grandmother’s flight from Nazi Germany
But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice – not Tenniel’s blonde school-girl
" —María do Cebreiro
Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi In Search of Dustie-Fute / a small deprivationSlip ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicious abandon. In a landscape populated by levitating snailfish, sotto voce therapists, melancholic kittiwakes and collapsing stage sets, boundaries blur, languages merge, vision is partial and identity nothing
