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Amiri Baraka died today, at seventy-nine; The Paris Review had the pleasure of publishing several of his poems. Baraka wrote “Pres Spoke a Language” to celebrate the jazz saxophonist Lester Young, but one could just as easily apply its eulogy to the poet himself:
Preshad a languageand a life, like,all his own,but in the teeming whole of us he livedtooting on his sideways horn
Read “Pres Spoke a Language” here.
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