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Letters from Latin America
Past and future collide in works by Francisco Aragon, Amparo Davila and Rita Indiana
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
FRANCISCO ARAGON, possibly one of the best Latinx poets writing today, has created a thing of beauty in His Tongue a Swath of Sky (available from author, franciscoaragon.net). It’s both a poetic meditation and a thought-provoking conversation with Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario.
As well as including seven of Dario’s Spanish-language originals and translations of his work, the pamphlet incorporates some of Aragon’s poems from his upcoming full-length collection After Ruben, due out next year.
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