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Poet-Playwright Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) Part 19
Good intentions
do not exactly equate
with good deeds,
Howard was no
good cure
for cold
calculated
crimes
committed
at high-noontide
at sea -
a futile
academic dish
that only produced
refined and more
efficient cogs
in the planter's wheel
of...
Poet-Playwright Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) ) Part 18
Let them seethe
and sizzle
and crackle
and fizz
and whizz
and hiss
and simmer
and then tea-
kettle-whistle
and explode
with furious
fumes till hell
boils over their
blue-eyed devil's
blood -
it's all a game,
this crappy talk
of...
Poet-Playwright Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) Part 17
A slice
of screams,
a film
of dreams,
a ream
of rascals
and imps,
my twin-boys
boiling up
my blood
over the boiling
point of
the sun...
the mangled past
screams
to be made
whole,
like buttermilk
when fat
and cream
have been
creamed...
truths morph
into...
What Amiri Baraka Said About Kwame Nkrumah-Part ll
Folks! We are back at it yet again. As always! It?s proper at this juncture to note how postmodernism and revisionism, two fascinating analytic...
Poet-Playwright Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) Part 14
For Amiri Baraka 14 (1934-2014)
"The destruction
of America
as he knows it"...
of course,
it is both
a he
and a she,
for black art
is a twin-gendered
cross-pollination
of fierce
resistance to
oppression
and
repression -
the right
to...
