Upper Volta Amiri Baraka becoming more a song than

becoming more a song than ever before

reaffirms my belief in poetry

and desperate

constructing a shimmering haunting of tenderness

coloniality

Upper Volta Amiri Baraka becoming more a song thanYanko 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.