{"id":3402,"date":"2012-01-14T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2021-07-14T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T00:06:10","slug":"amiri-baraka-clears-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/amiri-baraka-clears-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiri Baraka Clears Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"
decades ago when poet amiri baraka\u2019s
\nsurname jones rebuked for obscenity by
\nlangston hughes in essay \u201cthat boy leroi\u201d
\nnow almost eighty on stage with
\nfiftyish daughter at hammer museum and
\ncan\u2019t remember abstract impressionist
\npainter who dripped<\/p>\n
jackson pollock she said<\/p>\n
and the mexican muralist my man<\/p>\n
diego rivera she said<\/p>\n
baraka generally lucid especially recalling
\nduke ellington said imagine if we were in
\nplace where money falls from sky but you
\ncouldn\u2019t touch any of it<\/p>\n
well that\u2019s where you are baraka said maybe
\npoor should be able to sell their poverty <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
decades ago when poet amiri baraka\u2019s surname jones rebuked for obscenity by langston hughes in essay \u201cthat boy leroi\u201d now almost eighty on stage with fiftyish daughter at hammer museum and can\u2019t remember abstract impressionist painter who dripped jackson pollock she said and the mexican muralist my man diego rivera she said baraka generally lucid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[801,460,700,157,802,122,936,397,92,119,803,703,44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n