Afrika! is an imaginary space, a 'k' and an exclamation mark away from theprocesses, histories and conflicts that this, Adam Schwartzman's secondcollection, takes for its subject. It is a space that is at once estrangingand, with its wily appropriations, home ground for the citizen of theEnglish language. Above all, in projecting 'the great out-there' into onefictive universe, Afrika! eschews personality and vigorously re-affirmscommunity of descent, inheritance and association -- as the source ofauthority, both poetic and political.
