performance and the poem 129- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘Modern Poetry is Prose’, in Poetry as
Insurgent Art (New York: New Directions, 2007 ), p. 87. - Cited from Robert Lowell’s acceptance speech at the National
Book Awards for Life Studies in 1960. Available online at http://www.
poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/ 5903. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton
Anthology (New York: Norton & Norton, 1994 ). All subse-
quent references to this edition of Ferlinghetti’s poems are
given in the text. - Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art, p. 36.
- Amiri Baraka, ‘ Black Art’, in Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka
(New York: Morrow, 1979 ), p. 106. - Amiri Baraka, ‘State/Meant’ [ 1965 ], in Donald Hall (ed.), The
Poetics of the New American Poetry (New York: Grove Press,
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- Amiri Baraka, ‘Expressive Language’ [ 1963 ], in The Poetics of
the New American Poetry, pp. 373 – 7 (p. 375 ). - Amiri Baraka, Postmodern American Poetry, p. 262. All subse-
quent references to this edition of Baraka’s poems are given in
the text. - Jerome Rothenberg, ‘New Models, New Visions: Some Notes
Toward a Poetics of Performance’, in Postmodern American
Poetry, pp. 640 – 4 (p. 640 ). - Rothenberg, ‘New Models, New Visions’, p. 641.
- Meta DuEwa Jones, ‘Politics, Process & (Jazz) Performance:
Amiri Baraka’s “It’s Nation Time” ’, African American Review, - 2 / 3 ( 2003 ), 245 – 52 (p. 246 ).
- Jones, ‘Politics, Process & (Jazz) Performance’, p. 248.
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- Amiri Baraka, ‘Hunting is Not Those Heads on the Wall’, in
The Poetics of the New American Poetry, pp. 378 – 82 (p. 380 ). - Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African
American Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1991 ), p. 201. - Amiri Baraka, cited in Robert G. O’Malley (ed.), The Jazz
Cadence of American Culture (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1998 ), p. 538.