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...latest work, a self-titled album featuring a hip-hop potpourri of spoken word and rap, dismisses the feminine mystique that has pervaded all his previous efforts, including his first album, Amethyst Rock Star, and an earlier epic poem, “she.” Williams begins the new disc with what could only be described as a startling reclamation of his masculinity. “I ain’t got proper diction for the makings of a thug,” he tell us, not quite ironically, “though I grew up in the ghetto...
When Saul Williams last graced us with his words, in the form of the glorious epic poem, “, said the shotgun to the head,” he gamely disproved the notion that black male artists are nothing without their masculinity...
...simple disoriented man in her presence,” Williams wrote in one particularly honest passage, “i wear my loincloth over my eyes and ejaculate too soon.” And in stirring renditions of the poem at the Paradise Rock Club and here at Harvard last year, Williams performed what amounted to a public emasculation. “The truth erupts from her core,” Williams cried, and his audience could only agree. Now, Saul Williams wants his penis back...
...Diyarbakir, which in the past has sharply criticized government abuses. It's ironic that these successes are thanks largely to the efforts of a conservative, pro-Islamic government. Erdogan was jailed in 1998 for violating Turkey's ban on the mixing of religion with politics - he recited a poem that compared minarets to bayonets - but it was that experience, aides say, that convinced him that his party's political survival depended on European guarantees of freedom of expression. As a conservative Muslim, he was well placed to bring traditionalists with him, notes a Turkish diplomat: "It was Nixon who went...
...struggle with the alienation of travel. Then, at last he makes a happy connection that, even if it didn't happen, would have to be made up for the sake of book's dramatic arc. By the end, "Carnet de Voyage," turns into a kind of melancholy picture poem of love for people, the environment and art. You can't ask much more from a travel book than that...