Jombii JamboriiJeremy Jacob Peretz and Joan Cambridge Mayfield Jombii Jamborii is a wild party. In Guyanas Creole language, Creolese (or Kriiyaliiz), jumbi (or jombii) can mean wild or of low status. These pejorative attributes have been similarly ascribed to Creolese through a coloniality of language centuries in the making. Jumbi, however, are also cherished and feared ancestral memory, often understood, if reductively, as ghosts or spirits offering both the

A collection of fourteen poems

Dorothea Lasky

want ze schreef in het Fries en was een vrouw

The future world of Not Us Now is remembered in an even further future

Een drogist

as Hart Crane puts it

[what will govern me then]

Moya De Feyter

als geen ander kind ooit had'

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offered with exemplary attention

And sometimes I know the translator's simply talking about himself