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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.m. klein, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, boris lurie, clayton patterson, david h. katz, David katz, Donald Kuspit, elaine martin, eli mandel, emmanuel levinas, Irving Layton, Jacques Derrida, Michael Franti, Michael Greenstein, Raul Hilberg, seymour mayne, Walter Benjamin
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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