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Baraka

NOUN
  1. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)

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  • Baraka's intentionally unmusical, discordant notes possess a unique and parodic music as he moves in his delivery of ‘It's Nation Time’ through speech, scream, and song.
  • Here Baraka repeats the Emersonian desire to poetize American with new signs, but his appropriation shows how at the same time American's own sons were incapable of the project.
  • Topping the bill are free screenings at some of SE15's most attractive locations: Harold Lloyd's Safety Last and Ealing comedy The Ladykillers in Nunhead Cemetery; Baraka in a local nature garden; and Battleship Potemkin on top a multi-storey car park with pop-up bar and a great view of the city. This week's new film festivals
  • Baraka here is particularly interested in the differing timbres or tones that the two strains of music produced.
  • At the initial condolence ceremony, the marabout officiates, transmitting his religious blessing or benediction (called al baraka) to the guests.
  • And even though I reject Amiri Baraka's hairbrained, "truther" talk about 9/11, the fact that he was speaking from the perch of the poet who was serving in a public role as poet laureate of New Jersey lent obvious weight to his cockamamie nonsense. Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?
  • Baraka's jewellery selection offers a spread of other creations such as grooved and sleek finger rings in stainless steel with a 'thread' of pink gold running through their centre, a black stainless steel and 18k pink gold ring 'punctuated' with screws and pieces combining gold, natural rubber and high-tech ceramic. Undefined
  • Amiri Baraka is only exaggerating a bit when he calls Lee ‘the quintessential buppie, almost the spirit of the young, upwardly mobile, Black, petit bourgeois professional’.
  • The Baraka congregation also includes international members from as far away as Korea and Sweden.
  • In Baraka, one survivor recalled: "They tried to make my older brother rape me.
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