Upper Volta Amiri Baraka Their troubles become lyric

Their troubles become lyric

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

the hum of a permanently empty refrigerator

becoming more a song than ever before

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Upper Volta Amiri Baraka Their troubles become lyricYanko 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.