Lunch Poems - Amiri Baraka

Revolutionary poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka is recognized as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, a literary period that began in Harlem in the 1960s and forever changed the look, sound, and feel of American poetry. Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) helped to empower African American artists to establish publishing houses, journals, and university ethnic studies programs. His books continue to spark intense political and aesthetic controversy while receiving tremendous critical acclaim.

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[PacoHammad]

Amiri Baraka - chinga tu madre pinche wey de mierda.... esta basura me hace vomitar..... Yuk!!!! Que mierda es asno, este burro mal creado....

[TSquared2001]

Timeless

[Hennersthedeafmute]

easily one of the most interesting poets of the 20th century, a true revolutionary pushing every boundary he finds, but always willing to apologise when he finds a line and feels he's crossed it.

[ForexReviewsCentral]

Great speech. Thanks for the video

[DwiteTheSpriteKnight]

The poetry starts at 8 mins and 51 secs in.

[brandon1ucas]

amiri baraka, a hack? Some people that commented here need to go back to school. He's probably one of the greatest African American poets since Langston Hughes. Maybe he's just ahead of his time...

[TomwithOnions]

@WarezDaBeef, Some people don't need to deny politics. You know what I think? You're ashamed. You don't like this guy's poetry, but you can't tell why. So you poke fun at colleges, like all these old English teachers in a library are no different from the potheads they have the misfortune of teaching. You jump to Islamophobia, like that makes you less Republican and more libertarian somehow. And I didn't hear any talk of shooting honkies for being honkies. Maybe you just don't know poetry.

[lionintu]

@WarezDaBeef U must be one of those blood sucking Vampire Baraka was talking about at 30:00

[PedoRasul571]

@HarleyGrl722 , perhaps your English professor should have introduced you to Yeats, Whitman, Frost, or any great poet rather than to some angry, ranting piece of crap. In the name of diversity and inclusiveness, mediocre hacks are now called great artists and poets. How sickening it is!

[madestmax67]

@WarezDaBeef You ugly because you is was the same, you ugly because you know you ugly and say you aint

[WarezDaBeef]

I'm glad I didn't attend Berkeley. The campus reeks of urine, pot, & Birkenstock pseudo-intellectuals who want 2 give a voice to all (the oppressed). B4 any of U utter UR hate, I'M NOT A REPUBLICAN. As a fiscal/civil libertarian, I even protested when Mahmoud "I'ma Blow U up" (deranged prez of Iran) was invited to speak at Columbia (my grad school Alma Matter). I recently became aware of this "wanna be" poet. I understand at one point he advocated the killing of white people. Sickening!!!