Legacy: Amari Baraka

Link to Legacy Poem
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171264

The poem I chose to read was written by a poet named  Amari Baraka. His studies in philosophy and religious studies at Rutgers and Howard University proves why his audience and critics respond objectivity to his work. When using vivid dialect and images to make the reader picture and imaging how he feels as he writes is very intelligent. Without writing huge words to explain what he is saying he draws out what goes on by using simple slang. That is one of the reasons why I chose to pick this poet for this weekends assignment. When I read this poem I was almost at the edge of my seat. Only because I thought there should have been more with the structure of the poem and the tone. I felt like I was there during the time period which he speaks about. 

The poem that Amari Baraka writes clearly makes him distinctly an American in many ways. There were many stories that my great grandmother and my grand parents told me that connected to the writings of this poet. From the lives of a southerner to the ways they had to survive with no money or places to sleep or use the bathroom. The fact that he is American poet but the fact that he can write what actually went on during that long hard period of time down south makes him a distinct American.