Website review: About Bob Kaufman
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ynnodad rated 20 months ago- from the page; In 'Like Father, Like Sun', with Lorca as tutelary spirit, he again invokes an America of life - from New Orleans to the Mississippi to the 'Apache, Kiowa, and Sioux ranges'- against a 'rainless', 'fungus' America. But his ending looks even further, to a pluralised, uncoercive, universal nation - to, as it were, Emerson's 'poem' America: The poem comes Across centuries of holy ties, and weeping heaven's eyes, Africa's black handkerchief, washed clean by her children's honor, As cruelly designed anniversaries spin in my mind, Airy voice of all those fires of love I burn in memory of America is a promised land, a garden torn from naked stone, A place where the losers in earth's conflicts can enjoy their triumph. All losers, brown, red, black, and white; the colors from the Master Palette.
- Weather-Prophet rated 37 months ago
- All that lives is Holy, The unholiest, most holy of all.
