Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yemen shortly after the Suez War, I heard a black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar...
...which proved to be much better than Che imagined, relentlessly pursued the guerrillas, forcing them to abandon most of their supplies, including Che's asthma medicine. Wandering aimlessly within an ever-tightening perimeter, the guerrillas fell to quarreling and fighting one another. During this time, Che wrote a poem called "A Memory," which Bolivian authorities allowed St. George to copy from one of his notebooks...
After Che finally accepted Bolivian radio reports of Tania's death, his diary entries reflected no remorse. But, St. George says, he later found a poem that Che dedicated to Tania...
...York avantgarde. A small, aggressive coterie, its social life revolved around the "291" Gallery, run by O'Keeffe's future husband, Alfred Stieglitz. O'Keeffe was beautiful, then as now, and Stieglitz's pictures of her over their long years together form the greatest love poem in the history of photography. But painters in the "291" circle, like Marsden Hartley and John Marin, found it hard to believe that somebody who did the cooking might also be a serious painter...
...MOST powerful poem in the album is "Niggers Are Scared of Revolution." While castigating their race for its apathy, for its obsession with cool to the exclusion of unity, there is no dissociation. In spite of the poet's furious words, there is love...