The first of two volumes digging his nails largely into Spanish Fascism – a subject Gary knows a fair bit about, personally and academically. A resident of Franco’s Spain for several years in the 1970s, Gary saw (and provoked) a genuine police state, and lived to deliver us these poems.
Christian departed for the wilderness. Quiet, poemless years passed. At last, nearing the bend into 2009, he announced his intention to tour North America. And those poems he’d held safe in the front left pocket of his lucky jeans found their way into the air.We’re all so much the better for it.