The Naif Refractive Africa And in a final prose

And in a final prose poem

Appearing here in English for the first time

die net als haar roman

fluent in code switch

and essays and speeches dealing with his Jewish heritage

The Naif Refractive Africa And in a final proseValerie Hsuing The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivetya language fasted, resource starved loopand it lives as a test: of what awareness, what becoming, what imagination is possible under the scarcest of conditions, conditions that can make it impossible to deceive or beguile (others or oneself). It is a book as glass house reversed, where the person walking by can see all the way in, but the person inside cant see halfway outand yet the person