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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
THE US poet Fred Voss once said that he hoped his poems might one day “strike the spark or kick the pebble that will start the fire or the avalanche that will change the world a little.”
That’s a good way of describing the limitless ambitions of a slim volume of poems.
Voss is the author of one of three splendid new pamphlets from Culture Matters/Manifesto Books (£5.99 each or £15 for all three) and, like all his work, The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand is about the machine shop where he has worked for over 30 years.
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