Baraka, Amiri 1982
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Vintage poster of Amiri Baraka’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
The gaunt thing
with no organs
creeps along the streets
of Europe, she will
commute, in her feathered bat stomach-gown
with no organs
with sores on her insides…
– Amiri Baraka, “Babylon Revisted”
Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
What I thought was love
in me, I find a thousand instances
as fear. (Of the tree’s shadow
winding around the chair, a distant music
of frozen birds rattling
in the cold.
– Amiri Baraka, “The Liar”
Watch Amiri Baraka read his work with Rob Brown on saxophone accompaniment:
