amiri baraka
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“Craziness is no act / Not to act is craziness”
“In Baraka’s world, love of human liberation and the struggle for it is exalted.” Alexs Pate
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God Cannot Be Fingered
Wikipedia Poem, No. 410 not every sentence needs a verb this one for instance does not demand it now this small pocket of music set down by leroi jones in my genes must be crawling through the world’s fetid cast it’s not that he’s dead he’s just one man anyway the poet as strap…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 404
after Nancy Bauer, phenomenologist; Amiri Baraka, father; and Nick Montfort, explorer: people thinking of the sea from baraka’s trespass what little you can hear echoes out from the work to lift human voices to discover a chorus adopts the feeling continually breaking silence the landscape in american history is merely a discussion on traditional numerology the hills…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 389
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 360
a child made me see the light grew dim seer of one small primrose flowering in flame moments to find one small primrose holy ghosting then my sign i read it is said i will never find one small primrose then wealth it is said one small page a tear and a seer the holy…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 350
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 324
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An essay from Amiri Baraka’s “Bushwacked!”
He wasn’t a perfect man, but he was radical, prescient and sage. The fire that burnt in his belly for decades, roars to this day in millions of Americans. We’ve just got to believe we’re not fighting alone and stand up together — everyday. Please share this with your favorite radical activist.
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 99
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 69
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