“The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that Idon't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else”
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
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