Alphabet Soup Duits

Alphabet Soup DuitsEugene Ostashevsky Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father. As their Turkish German Russian American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak or is it the other way around? Alphabet Soup shows us the girls language as it changes, letting us

een liefhebster van natuur en cultuur

met talloze virtuoze korte gedichten waarin vaak dieren en plaatsnamen figureerden

“The pen is tinier than the sword

New York living in Durham

the Roses opens up poetic form into long

Ira woont in Dierenriem

as if its language

nabije dingen

“Every rose has the scent of death

these poems document the consequences of the perpetual and 'everywhere war

Lest we forget how to do these things ourselves

to what “catches in the throat