amiri baraka
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Sentient Sinatra Sunset (John Lurie)
for John Lurie is edible drowning up there? as predicted in a future poem his aesthetic stands itchy in hotlights at the sink washing dishes while thinking up elden ring memes for twitter clout this is a modern poem that does nothing his hands of caged meat slimes up past his elbows as he lemons…
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Tribulation is Treasure
Odorless paint thinner; Ready to use; Danger! Don’t read from left to right, top to bottom. Much comfort is not in much sleepe What did Sherman Alexie do? Almost liked a tweet from America’s No. 2 cereal company. Lean into your surreal sense of imagery. Wash hands immediately after use. Why is Sherman Alexie important?…
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Embouchure for James Comey
Wikipedia Poem, No. 829 They murder to Explain Themselves! — Amiri Baraka our good sense to have the leadership class in profoundly uncomfortable ways the fbi despite being the same embarrassions the fbi despite being profoundly uncomfortable ways the fbi despite being the same embarrassing profoundly uncomfortable way the fbi despite being problems of your…
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Amplify: Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s ‘Something in the Way of Things (In Town)’
*UPDATE: Now with video!* Knows me? You knows Amiri Baraka is the grounding voice. Fascination. inspiration. Baraka’s work shows the way forward—we so often lose the way. Freedom. “The real problem is you don’t know the real problem.” Remind us: Keep peeled. A great podcast was released sometime: William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen…
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‘Leadbelly Gives an Autograph’ by Amiri Baraka
Pat your foot and turn the corner. Nat Turner, dying wood of the church. Our lot is vacant. Bring the twisted myth of speech. The boards brown and falling away. The metal bannisters cheap and rattly. Clean new Sundays. We thought it possible to enter the way of the strongest. But it is rite that…
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“A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand” by Amiri Baraka, 1969
Source: Baraka, Amiri, and William J. Harris. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader. New York, NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991. Print.
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Portrait of Amiri
Wikipedia Poem, No. 641 white politicians are their weapons of there be black poems written until love let their weapons or they is their weapons leaving whose brains souls splintered steps or loud stumbling assassins we want a bar stool in the liberal spokesman for trees of there william calcraft poison gas bullshit unless here’s…
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Impossible Tercets as Exaggerated Reality
Wikipedia Poem, No. 624 aiming to avoid those threats dr strauss said adding to be livable over the next two decades settle increasingly feeling to avoid those threats dr strauss said adding to avoid those threats others to escape that any cities where some within the effects of climate the effects of the effects some…
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To Think and Choose in America Now
Wikipedia Poem, No. 576 downtown mall kill 32-year-old woman some thirty four others injured fights date over bloodiest fights date over bloodiest city’s choice remove statue robert e lee nationalists no plan demolition nineteen rally city’s choice remove statue robert e lee nationalists no plan demolition nineteen rally city’s choice remove statue robert e lee…
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