Lola the Interpreter My Vocabulary Did This to Me It centres on themes that

It centres on themes that recur frequently in Kareem's poetry - self-portraiture

but they are very genuine: they stirred my heart like the sound of a trumpet

Samira Negrouche

a “fairy tale of the universe” investigating grief

Lola the Interpreter My Vocabulary Did This to Me It centres on themes thatLyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian's Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an 'I' and a series of quasi characters (including Lola) interpret one another, their quotidian lives, and the terms, categories, and presuppositions that allow fragments of experience to be extracted from the flux of perception and framed as objects of analysis. This work stands as a culmination of Hejinian's lifelong exploration of thought's infrastructure, threading through