Renault 30

<p>Renault 30 is a sepia-toned drive through the dusty highways of 1980's Venezuela. Abel M. Folgar vividly portrays the country of his youth while weaving a personal narrative culled from the introduction of the automobile at the turn of the century (a Cadillac in 1904 actually) his great-granduncle's accident a bizarre fascination with American poet m loncar and bonding with his father. His poems are pockmarked by the excess of oil wealth pop culture and the rumblings of a communism that began and went dormant well before he was born returned in his early adolescence and persists long after he left.</p>