Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as contrary as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites. Via poetic memoir we join his navigation through the apolitical, rigid morality of the Jehovah s Witnesses; the revolutionary theories and free love of Black Panthers and Marxists; the promise of a bourgeois future from bank executives; a screaming soldier brandishing an AK-47 in his face, a blizzard of white termite wings; an interrogation under Haile Selassie s Jubilee...
Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as contrary as Christianity and Communism, in The Armage...