MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
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
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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.
Similar stories
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
LEO BOIX reviews Cuban poet Carlos Pintado; Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas; Mexican American writer and critic Rigoberto Gonzalez; and Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos
RON JACOBS reviews a new biography of the American poet who revolutionised the perception of black writers in the creative milieu of the day
RON JACOBS points out the role that incarceration plays in the super-exploitation of the poor, the black and the immigrant