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February 9, 2018
 

Return

 
Gala Mukomolova
Gala Mukomolova reads "Return."

About This Poem

 

“This poem is about the way immigrant children rewire themselves, how we overwrite our own language coding and in doing so betray our first love, which is sound and meaning. In this way we also betray our families and our child-selves (who need us desperately to return).”
—Gala Mukomolova

 

Gala Mukomolova’s chapbook, One Above / One Below: Positions & Lamentations, is forthcoming from Yes Yes Books in spring 2018. She received the 92nd Street Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize in 2016. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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