The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The ... push it to a farcically erroneous extreme. Take his play The Dutchman, for example, and his poem “Babylon Revisited.” ...

Amiri Baraka was African American ... and "Black Magic" (1969), his play "Dutchman" (1964), are renegade art. They belong to the world of beat poetry, downtown theater and the Black Arts Literary ...