If You Tolerate This

Frank Golden’s IF YOU TOLERATE THIS is a wide ranging work in six parts which nails its geo—political colors to the mast, and casts a misanthropic eye over the whole morass. The book opens in the company of Nick and his girlfriend Inga as they travel up the Tapajós River to the failed capitalist venture of Fordlandia. Failure and the blighted realities of both entitled and marginalized lives suffuse various sections of the book. Poems concerned with political and eco dynamics not only domin...