60s Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 35-50

6 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky

We focused on Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” and his critical review in “Poetry” of the “Angles of Ascent” anthology assigned for this class. We discussed the opposition Baraka posits between politically engaged poetry and poetry that he characterizes as self-indulgent and aesthetic. This opposition will figure repeatedly in our attention to the poems that follow in the course. We also briefly attended to his poem, “AM/TRAK.”