Amiri Baraka Black Poems

  • 1.
    In the south, sleeping against
    the drugstore, growling under
    the trucks and stoves, stumbling
    through and over the cluttered eyes
    ...
  • 2.
    African blues
    does not know me. Their steps, in sands
    of their own
    land. A country
    ...
  • 3.
    'A closed window looks down
    on a dirty courtyard, and Black people
    call across or scream across or walk across
    defying physics in the stream of their will.
    ...
  • 4.
    A political art, let it be
    tenderness, low strings the fingers
    touch, or the width of autumn
    climbing wider avenues, among the virtue
    ...
Total 4 Black Poems by Amiri Baraka

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