Baraka, Transitions: The man and the poetry
Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat,...
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The Flying Dutchman:
An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial...
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Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones chronicles a forty year friendship through...
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Beaten White
The Beat Generation found itself mystified by the black culture of the time. This mystification...
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War Upon War: The Second-Generation Beats and Postmemory
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. Most of the...
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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
Yesterday, on 9th January, Amiri Baraka passed away at the age of 79. He was an influential and...
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Somebody Blew Up America: A Conversation with Amiri Baraka
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 – the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on...
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Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
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Naked Lunch at Fifty
“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . ....
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by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
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Know Your Beats
A very brief guide to the players of the Beat Generation.
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