White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Imtiaz Dharker was the lingua franca of

was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East

that undeniable urge ‘to run barefoot/ downstairs// still drizzled with sex or soap/ to quarter persimmons

with many choice aromas and childhood joys

from the loss of loved ones to communal and national wounds

walled gardens and lost species

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Imtiaz Dharker was the lingua franca ofWhite Other is a strange hybrid beast part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working class other within neo liberal culture. White Other is memoir remixed, cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled, socially