Upper Volta Verity Spott New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review

all of Brion Gysin’s “permutated poems

Anne Kawala

Is that is or is that ain't like being stuck in sweetness

Here life’s innumerable impressions

Upper Volta Verity Spott New York Times Book ReviewYanko 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.