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Sat 04 Apr 2008The political positions of a Panther poet
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka might have changed his mind on Beat poetry, nationalism and anti-Semitism, but his writings are unshirking in their assertions, as a Cork audience will hear on Saturday, he tells Belinda McKeonat his New Jersey home
IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, in 1957, the young LeRoi Jones wrote to the young Allen Ginsberg, then living in Paris, on a piece of toilet paper. "Are you for real?" the letter asked.
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