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More than an onlooker
RON JACOBS welcomes an artful combination of poems and photography by an eloquent spokesman for social justicce in South America
Author Ben Dangl speaks at the 'Education and Enrichment for Everyone' lecture series in South Burlington, Vermont
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A Journey Through Many Worlds
by Benjamin Dangl, Fomite, £15.00
THE cover of Benjamin Dangl’s latest book, A World Where Many Worlds Fit, is both an invitation to and a representation of what is inside. Dangl, who currently teaches journalism at the University of Vermont, is the author of three books on current and historical movements for social justice in Latin America. In addition, he spent many years as a travelling journalist covering social upheavals, protests, conflicts and politics around the world.
Thus, it makes perfect sense that his most recent work is inspired by those travels and the experiences they engendered. Composed of a well-balanced composite of poetry and photographs, A World Where Many Worlds Fit is simultaneously a journal of places visited, the journeys taken in between and the perspective of a North American committed to be more than an onlooker but because of circumstances, still not one with the people and places he encounters.
The poems describe a multitude of phenomena. Celebrations of the people, aftermaths of uprisings, precipitous bus rides through mountains and hostile territory. The legacy of dictatorships are discovered in the marks of bullets fired by authoritarian militaries.
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