Category Archives: Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka Clears Mind

January 14, 2012

decades ago when poet amiri baraka’s
surname jones rebuked for obscenity by
langston hughes in essay “that boy leroi”
boy now almost eighty on stage with
fiftyish daughter at hammer museum and
can’t remember abstract impressionist
painter who dripped
jackson pollock she said
and the mexican muralist my man
diego rivera she said
baraka generally lucid especially recalling
duke ellington said imagine if we were in
place [...]

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