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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780913441619
ISBN: 0913441619
Label: House of Nehesi Publishers
Manufacturer: House of Nehesi Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 82
Publication Date: 2003-09-06
Publisher: House of Nehesi Publishers
Studio: House of Nehesi Publishers

A new collection of poems.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Moving and thought provoking
Review: I was there when Baraka read this poem at the Dodge poetry festival, before the controversy. It is an incredibly moving and thought provoking poem.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It took a controversey to make anyone read this one
Review: When this poem came out, there was a lot of controversy. Not only because of the content, but because New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey had named Amiri Baraka as the state's poet laureate shortly before, and the subsequent outrage over the poem prompted the state to rescind that title from Baraka.

Some believe Mr. Baraka (AKA Leroy Jones) was blaming the Jews in his poem "Somebody Blew Up America" for the 9-11 attack on the Twin Towers. After reading the poem, I understand Baraka's point that he was not blaming Jews, but rather ISRAELIS.

That being said, the only reason anyone bothered to read this book and its poems was because of the controversy. It's not a great of a read at all.

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