A poem titled for this thing includes four lines structured as multiple-choice questions, such as “A tapering, blunt-tipped, muscular, soft and fleshy organ describes…” That “discourse on the logic” of this thing is by M. NourbeSe Phillip. In a Paris Review interview, a poet called one of these things “nobody’s special property,” but instead “property of the imagination.” An essay that coined a term for one type of this thing quotes a child’s line “the snow was falling on the cane fields” in the book (*) History of the Voice. The speaker claims, “To change [this thing] you must change your life” in the poem “Codicil.” (10[1])Non-standard varieties of these things used in the Caribbean were dubbed “nation” examples by Kamau Brathwaite. The speaker asks how to choose between Africa and one of these (10[1])things he loves in Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa.” For 10 points, what constructs include “mother” examples such as Jamaican patois and Gikuyu? ■END■