http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php/site/index/ en nico@dionysusunemployed.net Copyright 2008 2008-01-07T07:13:00-08:00 http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php/site/new_poetry/ http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php/site/new_poetry/#When:07:13:00Z Disemboweled Poetry I Tai Amri’s poetry is concerned with confronting the injustices of this white-supremacist patriarchal-capitalistic paradigm that is suffocating the will of the world. By calling in the divine imagery of the indigenous peoples of Africa, the Americas, and the prophetic social witness of the politically and socially radical Christ and counter-culture enlightenment of the Buddha, his work stands in contrast, and thus works towards disemboweling, poetry which forcibly submits to prescribed definitions of ‘what a poem should be,’ and in doing so it disembowels, ‘what a human should be.’ Common themes in his work are the challenging and critiquing of the traditional roles prescribed for the ‘oppressor’ and the ‘oppressed.’ Featured Poems america libre oaxaca Benediction U-god 2008-01-07T07:13:00-08:00 http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php/site/new_fiction/ http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php/site/new_fiction/#When:08:41:01Z 2007-09-26T08:41:01-08:00