{"id":64719,"date":"2014-01-09T18:54:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=64719"},"modified":"2014-01-10T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T13:57:41","slug":"tooting-on-his-sideways-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/tooting-on-his-sideways-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooting on His Sideways Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64735\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/amiri-baraka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64735 \" alt=\"amiri baraka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/amiri-baraka.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/amiri-baraka.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/amiri-baraka-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: T. Carrigan, via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amiri Baraka died today, at seventy-nine; <em>The Paris Review <\/em>had the pleasure of publishing several of his poems. Baraka wrote \u201cPres Spoke a Language\u201d to celebrate the jazz saxophonist Lester Young, but one could just as easily apply its eulogy to the poet himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pres<br \/>had a language<br \/>and a life, like,<br \/>all his own,<br \/>but in the teeming whole of us he lived<br \/>tooting on his sideways horn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/3274\/pres-spoke-in-a-language-amiri-baraka\">Read \u201cPres Spoke a Language\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amiri Baraka died today, at seventy-nine; The Paris Review had the pleasure of publishing several of his poems. 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