Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes.
| Publisher | African American Review |
| Publication | African American Review |
| Subject | Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Published | 2003-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Interviews | Amiri Baraka |
| Author | n/a | Kalamu ya Salaam |
Salaam: When you wrote A System of Dante's Hell, at one point you decided just to start with memory. You sat down and just started to write your first memories--without trying to make any sense of them or to order them, but rather just to write whatever your first memories were. Is that correct?
Baraka: Yeah. That's essentially what it is. I was writing to try to get away from emulating Black Mountain, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, that whole thing. It struck me as interesting because somebody else who had done the same thing was Aime Cesaire. Cesaire said that he vowed one...
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