Amiri Baraka New Jersey Assembly Votes to Cut Embattled Poet's Job
Ytzhak | 09.07.2003 04:08 | Anti-racism | Culture | Free Spaces | World
The New Jersey General Assembly approved a measure today to eliminate the post of state poet laureate. The legislation would effectively remove the poet, Amiri Baraka, who had caused a furor with his poem referring to the 9/11 attacks.
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You've made my Day!
10.07.2003 03:33
It's not so much that the modern world is totally bored of Barak's 1970's style of retro-racist, victim-based, paranoid poetry; it's that when viewed with any objectivity, Barka is clearly just a BAD POET!
It's all shock and no substance, and frankly, after reading 'Somebody Blew Up America', I'd have to say that Vanilla Ice has more street cred than this aging, pseudo-angry, activist.
Bye-bye Baraka.
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