‘I come from shepherd’s pie and Sunday roast, / jerk chicken and stuffed vine leaves. / I come from travelling through my taste buds but loving where I live.’ Dean Atta gets it right!
I am currently reading Dean Atta’s memoir, Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body and will blog on it later, but surely Atta is on the ball about ‘patriotism’ in his poem I Come From (read it here: Atta, D. (2019) ‘I Come From’, Feminist Dissent, 4, pp. 158-159. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n4.2019.410) . … More ‘I come from shepherd’s pie and Sunday roast, / jerk chicken and stuffed vine leaves. / I come from travelling through my taste buds but loving where I live.’ Dean Atta gets it right!
