Upper Volta Amiri Baraka reaffirms my belief in poetry

reaffirms my belief in poetry

een portaal

becoming more a song than ever before

this playful bricolage explores the norms of the workplace and its notions of competence

and desperate

Upper Volta Amiri Baraka reaffirms my belief in poetryYanko Gonzalez, translation Stephen Rosenshein Like an anthropologist doing fieldwork, in Upper Volta Yanko Gonzlez collects language from street corners, grocery store aisles, cocktail hours, and historical sources, laying data bare with a poet's meticulous hand. In his findings; Gonzlez gives voice to the voiceless; and exposes the underbelly of our own biases the ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness.