Upper Volta Verity Spott Latin America and the U

Latin America and the U

all of Brion Gysin’s “permutated poems

Minimal Odes

l’aigre (Éditions du Seuil

New York Times Book Review

Upper Volta Verity Spott Latin America and the UYanko 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.