This poem is about the death of Lucille Clifton's husband, Fred James Clifton, who passed away on 11 October 1984 at the age of 49. Poetry Foundation, Legacy discusses the many different situations that may be described in blues songs, from the homeless man sleeping outside or wandering in the littered back alleys and deserted streets of the early morning hours in the south to getting drunk and traveling from town to town, finding each the same . xxviii + 532 pp. climbing wider avenues, among the virtue. Documentary Poetry: A Study of AMiri Baraka's "Somebody Blew up AMerica" We didn't know the late Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), who died this week at the age of seventy-nine, as a famous poet who initiated the powerful Black Arts Movement in 1965, or as the man whose groundbreaking plays, ranging from 1964's "Dutchman," to 1969's "Four Black Revolutionary Plays," changed what was possible on the American stage; we just knew him as Kellie and Lisa . Analysis III.docx - Analysis for The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka Please ... Remembering Amiri Baraka Part 2 Featuring Sonia Sanchez, Felipe Luciano ... Cold morning to night, we go so slowly, without thought to ourselves. Amiri Baraka Calls Out Obama-Haters-says; 'Do Something' On "The Slave" by Amiri Baraka. - Roundabout Theatre Company They see what they want or need to see. We spend the hour looking at the life and legacy of Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and political organizer who died Thursday at the age of 79. Amiri Baraka - SlideShare little) summary of post-romantic lyric--experience, as he sees it, derived from the (erotic) fiction of the individual--packaged, canned . Are there specific events in his or her life that influenced the play? But an end, his end, failing a beginning.