This interview with him from The Argotist Online might be of interest to you, Luke:
http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Baraka%20interview.htm
From: Luke <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: British & Irish poets <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:11:31 +0000
If I may?
If
I think myself ugly
& go to the mirror, smiling,
at the inaccuracy, or now
the rain pounds dead grass
in the stone yard, I think
how very wise I am. How very
very wise.
-- Amiri Baraka
Seems like there's many different voices there, yet still held in its own idiom. If you agree, what is that? I'm looking to write a short presentation, on Baraka, and want to be critical, too.
Thanks for any help, of course.
Best,
L
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