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"Black Art" is a poem written by African-American poet Amiri Baraka. It was written in 1965 after the assassination of Malcolm X while still known as LeRoi Jones. The poem issued a clarion call for art by and for Black people:
We want a black poem. And a
Black World.
Let the world be a Black Poem
And Let All Black People Speak This Poem
Silently
or LOUD
The poem sparked the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in poetry.[1] "Black Art" was published in The Liberator in January 1966, and subsequently re-published in numerous anthologies.[2][3] The poem is described as one of Baraka's most expressive political poems, as it uses sharp language, onomatopoeia and violence, yet it is one of the most controversial supplements to the Black Arts Movement.[citation needed]
- ^ Smith, David L. (1986). "Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts of Black Art". boundary 2. 15 (1/2): 235–254. doi:10.2307/303432. ISSN 0190-3659. JSTOR 303432.
One of Baraka's most controversial poems, it rapidly became a central icon of the Black Arts Movement.
- ^ "From a 'Black Art' Poem to 'The Black Arts Movement'". www.culturalfront.org. September 8, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ Rambsy II, Howard (December 27, 2015). "Amiri Baraka and two consequential poems from 1965 | H-Afro-Am | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved March 20, 2018.