Inseparable from its legacy as ‘the land of lakes and volcanoes’ is Nicaragua’s legacy as a ‘country of poets,’ rendering a resistance that is encountered in all physical senses. Concrete Resources (Thank you for keeping me a company of images) examines the enmeshment of poetry and violence within Nicaragua’s national identity considering U.S. intervention and extraction in the larger void of the isthmus. Through visual and sonic collage, memories of this space as one side of my family's home and the other's site of study are pulled apart and built back again using family ephemera, U.S. government archives, and surrogate landscapes. —Emir West