"The Wound" references the creative, successful organizing to remove racist developer Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education. This included bringing meetings to a standstill with song. It responds to the refrain of a reactionary at a Richard Spencer talk at the University at Buffalo (gloriously disrupted): "burn it all down." In form it follows Octavio Paz's "The Wound" and shares the title of a great Jay Besemer poem.
Joe Hall on "The Wound" |
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