The collection includes the author’s two fascinating autobiographical commentaries “Hemingway in Jerusalem” and “My Journey in Writing”
the pain and the pleasure
He sinks into the darkness of our twilight
in the words of Alexandre O’Neills famous poem Portugal “an ongoing discussion with myself”
witnessed by the reception of his work both by the public and the critics
Upper Volta Jamie McKendrick The collection includes the author’sLike 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 poets meticulous hand. In his findings, Gonzlez gives voice to the voiceless, and exposes the underbelly of our own biasesthe ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness. Originally published in Chile in 2007, Upper Volta