Reading: Amiri Baraka

Presenter Information

Amiri Baraka

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

22-3-1978 3:00 PM

End Date

22-3-1978 4:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Amiri Baraka reads a selection of poems. Baraka reads “On the Money,” “Inside Out,” “An American Oppressed Story,” “Sparky, Like, This is What I Meant,” “Afro American Lyric,” “Malcolm Remembered, February 1977,” “Reprise of One of A.G.'s Best Poems” (a rewrite of Allen Ginsberg's “America”), “Dope,” and “All Reaction is Doomed.” Baraka also fields questions about Mao Zedong, mediating errors in revolution, fighting oppression, his experience circulating literature and giving readings for workers, armed revolution, socialist revolution in Chile as an example of failed revolution because of no public armament, and the political circumstances of Pablo Neruda's death.

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Reading: Amiri Baraka

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Amiri Baraka reads a selection of poems. Baraka reads “On the Money,” “Inside Out,” “An American Oppressed Story,” “Sparky, Like, This is What I Meant,” “Afro American Lyric,” “Malcolm Remembered, February 1977,” “Reprise of One of A.G.'s Best Poems” (a rewrite of Allen Ginsberg's “America”), “Dope,” and “All Reaction is Doomed.” Baraka also fields questions about Mao Zedong, mediating errors in revolution, fighting oppression, his experience circulating literature and giving readings for workers, armed revolution, socialist revolution in Chile as an example of failed revolution because of no public armament, and the political circumstances of Pablo Neruda's death.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1978/day3/2