No Budu Please - Wingston Gonzalez

Autor: Wingston Gonzalez

Editorial: Ugly Duckling Presse

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9781946433190

Reseña: Poetry. Translated by Urayoán Noel. NO BUDU PLEASE emerges in the voice of an artificial boy in some sort of plastic prairie as he zeroes in on desire spirit and diversion. A diversion for all those forgotten and on the outskirts impenetrable. Wingston González has carved out a distinctive way of creating beats with words a spiritual questioning of godliness and a space of immersion in a Garifuna history marked by the 1797 expulsion from St. Vincent and subsequent exile to the coast of Central America. One of the most prolific Garifuna writers today González has built a window into contemporary Black indigeneity in Mesoamerica but also closed that same window in a sidelong attack on colonialist language and syntax rewriting Spanish as he goes. Urayoán Noels translation moves the ludic experimentation with Spanish into an English that also tears at the colonial heart of Occidental imaginings. Both books insist that colonial fantasies are not to be stomached that there is no easy way in or out of reality or dream rather a series of glacial contradictions and bloody yearnings.