Tag Archives: Michael Franti

decoys of perception: poetry after …..

Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading

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FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood

Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama,  to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading

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FAMOUS & DANDY LIKE AMOS & ANDY, ABDUL & SAMMY

We learn to like to be the heroes We learn to lie to the brand name negroes We learn to laugh to avoid being angry We learn to kill and learn to go hungry We learn not to feel, for … Continue reading

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