Review: Poems from the Edge of Extinction edited by Chris McCabe

And I also wonder, rather gruesomely, how many languages died on the tongues ripped out of speakers’ mouths. I wonder how many people are losing the most intimate way of articulating themselves in the wake of globalized modernity. All of this makes me angry and makes me wish I could scrape English, a language of ultimate hegemony, out of my being. Of course, that would mean I’d lose access to my own native tongue.