Without commenting on the politics of poem or poet, I'd note that the
language of this specific poem is both plain & pretentious. Now, if you'll
excuse me, I'm going to go secure a turkey sandwich.
jd
PS: I really like this informal series of poems by others.
jd
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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."
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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