Baraka Condemned

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Wed Oct 2 12:37:33 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox's fav poet (better than Whitman, remember) gets tagged for that dreadful collection of words Carrol posted here:

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s689316.htm

Now, of course, Baraka's rights to free expression should be defended vigorously, and this bit by the NJ gov is clear political grandstanding. But Baraka is a Jew-baiting, queer-baiting extended rip off of the artistically superior Allen Ginsberg, and should be regarded as such.

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