<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Carrol Cox's fav poet (better than Whitman, remember) gets tagged for that dreadful collection of words Carrol posted here:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s689316.htm">http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s689316.htm</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DP</DIV></BODY></HTML>