Poems That Kill borrows its title from the poem, Black Art, by the late, great Amiri Baraka (1934-2014). This new volume of work by Emmy Award-winning poet, Lasana D. Kazembe is a lyrical meditation on culture, art, politics, and the tensions and possibilities framing everyday life.
Heeding Baraka’s admonishment, these are poems that kill ignorance, celebrate living, and embrace the possibility of a liberated future.
Situated as A.R.T. (A Revolutionary Tool), the poems comprising this volume are offered as informed critique of our current state... as praise for the immutable, fragile beauty animating the innermost precincts of our collective humanity... and as critical hope for prosocial transformation of society and ourselves.
Umbra Arts Publishing, 146 pp., ISBN: 979-889901518-2
