To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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‘I experience the orphanage of language…’
LEO BOIX talks to Angus Reid about exile, language and the irony of the title of his first collection of poems written in English, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
LEO BOIX, who contributes a regular column to the Star on new Latin American literature, reveals the playful and unique sensibility of the LatinX migrant in his first English language collection of poetry, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant.
His two previous collections were in Spanish; for this one he has attempted something that few poets dare and even fewer achieve — to write in an adopted language.
As an activist for the LatinX community, a translator and a teacher, Boix is an ambassador between cultures. As a poet he is even more generous: he gives us access to the complex inner life of the immigrant.
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