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In Memory of Radio | Essays and Criticism

• The Idea of Loss in Baraka's Poem

  Chris Semansky’s poetry, essays, and stories appear regularly in literary magazines and journals. In the following essay, Semansky examines the idea of loss in Amiri Baraka’s poem, “In Memory of Radio.”

• The Various Functions of Baraka's Poem

  Tyrus Miller is an assistant professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University, where he teaches twentieth-century literature and visual culture. His book Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars is forthcoming. In the following essay, Miller discusses the various functions of the poem, such as to memorialize Baraka’s life and death, to reflect on the loss of one’s innocence and the realization that such innocence might be a kind of blindness, and to reveal the morality associated with the concepts of color and race.

• The Hidden Meaning in the Language of the Poem

  In this brief essay, Hakac discusses the hidden meaning in the language of the poem.

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