Notes From A Talk By
Amiri Baraka Wise
Elder Revolutionary Black Panther, Still
with a soft spot in heart for Frank O’Hara, Says
he cried first time reading “Howl.” He
mentions Mark Twain Same
breadth as Fredrick Douglass. Roi sez Both
belong to Black Arts Movement History. The
key is to Organize, like Sun-Ra, who
left for the Future Only
to come back to say he’d left, who evoked Lost
civilizations, used Strangeness to Open
feeling as intelligence. You
got to present a United Front. Thought
is trivialized to the extreme for commodification. Art
shows we were not just slaughtering one another. 9 July 2010 [Published in The Groundless Ground: Poems 2010-2014. © 2014 by Jim
Cohn.] |
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