Western imperial powers
Gamper's ‘three-dimensional sketchbook’ brought him international recognition
wise and life-affirming
while imagining forms of survival now for those who often have little to no choices
a reference to Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s novel
Ronaldo V. Wilson: Virgil Kills Linocut Western imperial powersNightboat Books, 2021, Softcover, 352 pages, 19. 5 13 cm Linked stories alighting from a U. S., Black and Filipino imaginary through a central character Virgil, and his accounts on race, sex, and desire. Virgil kills forms, manifesting a set of poetic investigationsrevealing black and brown life, memory, dreams, the sea, the sex act, the line. Virgil travels in theaters and lots: Manhattan, Guam, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Berlin, Iloilo, Provincetown,