We are proud to present “Surplus Values” , the tenth poetry book by poet, dramatist, sociologist, musical and creative genre-bender Ari Sitas.
“Surplus Values” is an invitation to dig deeper into the atrocity we have become and ask: are there ways that words can express the wanton violence and killing, even the current genocide, without losing hope? How do we create values and solidarity when our navigating systems are being trashed and rendered surplus? Is there a breathing space left on this continent and especially on this southern-most tip? Is our poetry and music part of a regrettable failure?
In his last work, “Mapping Gondwana” (2022) we were left knee-deep in water in deep tunnels hoping that our verse was seeding. We could still hear the screaming outside their walls. In this collection he dares to take us to the sources of such sounds. Poetry was and is, hard work.
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