They said you blew up America With verse and words no one dared speak A poet laureate politics sought to silence, whose robes were decked With Obe…
Tune in to Building Bridges on WBAI 99.5 FM / http://www.wbai.org/playernew.html on Monday, Jan. 13 at 7 pm for a tribute to Amiri Baraka and to CPRMetro at http://cprmetro.blogspot.com/ on Saturday, January 17 at 10 am for the stream of his homegoing services:
Amiri Baraka, like his name, was a blessed prince, and he loomed like a colossus over the Black arts movement, excelling in practically every literary expression—as a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, journalist, and essayist.
Sadly, some writers have focused exclusively on the militant linkage between Malcolm X and Amiri Baraka to the criminal neglect of the genius of poetic insight and monumental powers in the art of the spoken word that bound them together.
by Anthony Monteiro
“The defense of Amiri is the defense of our national liberation and working class emancipatory aspirations.”
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died . He was 79.
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