"The real hallmark of an effective political artist is that the politics is accepted with the art," said Baraka. A new career-spanning anthology... Amiri Baraka Didn't Worry About His Politics ...
Only catchy "doo doos" and "da das" sung to the tune of obscure oldies broke Amiri Baraka's charged poetry last night in Café Vivian. The controversial poet delved into sensitive racial and class ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hettie Jones, an award-winning author, publisher and educator who was the first wife and early muse of the author-poet-activist Amiri Baraka and one of the few women in the Beat ...
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Every city has its bard. Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more ...