A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri BarakaRead
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Interpretation
Poetry is fundamentally a musical form of expression using words.
Amiri Baraka suggests that poetry should be understood as a form of music, emphasizing the rhythm and sound of words rather than merely their meaning. This perspective encourages readers to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of language and how these qualities evoke emotions similar to musical compositions.
In practice
In a poetry reading, when discussing the role of sound in verse.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is β¦ political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
I am inside someone_x000D_ who hates me. I look_x000D_ out from his eyes. Smell_x000D_ what fouled tunes come in_x000D_ to his breath. Love his_x000D_ wretched women.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.
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