A typographically-experimental poem titled for this thing includes four lines (-5[1])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.” To illustrate a form of this thing, the line “the snow was falling on the cane fields” is quoted in the book History of the Voice. The speaker claims, (*) “To change [this thing] you must change your life” in the poem “Codicil.” Non-standard varieties of these things used in the Caribbean were dubbed “nation” examples (10[1])by Kamau Brathwaite. The speaker asks how to choose between Africa and one of these things he loves in Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa.” For 10 points, what constructs include “mother” examples such as Jamaican (10[1])patois and Gikuyu? ■END■