A man who deserves no attention at all
I f***ed your mother
On top of a house
When I got through
She thought she was
Mickey Mouse
(from "T.T. Jackson Sings," by Amiri Baraka)
Amiri Baraka has a long and distinguished record as an unrepentant Communist and anti-Semite. His racist hate speech brought him from the margins of '60s radicalism to the position of poet laureate of New Jersey (and the syllabus of an American Studies class at this institution). But more than anything else, he has become the thing he fears most: a profoundly uninteresting...
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