Amiri Baraka, Poet

IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, in 1957, the young LeRoi Jones wrote to the young Allen Ginsberg, then living in Paris, on a piece of toilet paper. “Are you for real?” the letter asked.
“I’m for real,” Ginsberg wrote back, “but I’m tired of being Allen Ginsberg.” The exchange was the beginning of a friendship that was to [...]

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