I read where a Kentucky poet thought that Amiri Baraka had turned himself into a laughing stock. She was bemoaning our lack of radical poets with respect to the Iraq Occupation. Where is that pedophile Ginsberg when we need him to write war protest poems?
We have who we have and I've had all the same thoughts Baraka has been able to express.
I've decided to highlight Baraka in this blog for a few days and look for the laughs. I assume this is the poem she's referring to. I've found several versions of this poem at YouTube. Some I like better than others. So far I'm not laughing.
I'm a doctoral candidate and psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner, postmodern redneck. Postmodernists say that we are not individuals, that we "perform many different subject positions." I plan to use this blog to perform them all in one place. Let's see what happens.
This is an old picture of me. It should stump my cyber-stalker.
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