Amiri Baraka Memory Poems

  • 1.
    Where ever something breathes
    Heart beating the rise and fall
    Of mountains, the waves upon the sky
    Of seas, the terror is our ignorance, that's
    ...
  • 2.
    A political art, let it be
    tenderness, low strings the fingers
    touch, or the width of autumn
    climbing wider avenues, among the virtue
    ...
  • 3.
    Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
    (Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
    The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
    Or something equally unattractive.)
    ...
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