With snippets of news, scholarship, and a host of classical and experimental forms, Jacobo the Turko explores the braided rivers of human kinship by tracing the misadventures of Jacobo Bitar, a young Ecuadorian of blended heritage and naïve dreams.
Jacobo the Turko recalls the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Nicolás Guillén (Cuban national poet), and Rita Dove.
Author photo by Davie Heitur
“Jacobo the Turko is a novel in verses quite unlike any other. Phillip Bannowsky’s linguistic dexterity and exceptional musi-cality create a unique narrative voice—the perfect voice to tell this picaresque tale that is a wild gumbo of characters and adven-tures, politics and class, and the absurdities and cruelties of mo-dern life. Bannowsky’s visionary blending of novel and poetry—and letters and documents and rap and prose and concrete poetry, etc.—is nearly indescrib-able, so strap yourself in for a wild ride and see for yourself.”
—Jim Daniels (The Middle Ages, poetry; The Perp Walk, stories)
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| Samples of Jacobo and others |
