AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS: SONGS FOR PATRIOTS

At a time when human existence is threatened by the absurdity of power and greed, Toure’ advances a poetry that celebrates and castigates, that kisses, curses and sings, reminding us as Blake, Whitman, Bly, Cardenal and Mackey that our soul emerges from soil; that we are tied to the cosmic umbilical of poetry and song; that even in the midst of foretold dangers, there is still time enough for dreaming and for reason…”

-Tony Medina
poet, activist, professor of English, and creative writing, Howard University

“In his rhythmic language, Toure’ is always limning out a better future. His major poetic figure has always been Apocalypse—sometimes in the image of fire, always in the sense of greater knowledge being awakened in us…His style of presentation, (closely approximated by the Last Poets), like that of the Psalms, was never “dramatic reading” but very nearly song.”

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