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From: "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Poems by others: Amiri Baraka, "Political Poem"
Your phrase "a worthless black-racist propagandist" strikes me as personal
abuse of a figure I've
read and witnessed live for 40 years with great admiration. It's certainly
not a convincing act of
evaluative literary criticism.
Actually, I don't think his poems about Jews being responsible for 9/11, or
supporting the Tawana Brawley hysteria, or several other tropes I could
name, deserve "evaluative literary criticism."
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