Robin Blaser to Amiri Baraka, 21 December 2002 with commentary by Ammiel Alcalay

copy to Don Allen 21 December, 2002 Dear Amiri Baraka, Just to say that the ongoing political despair of many of us – certainly my own – now meets…

AMIRI BARAKA – the field was real life not just a poetic allusion

“But all were urging a clarity to me about what there was of value in the N[ew] A[merican] P[oetry] that ironically finally made me look…