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Author,
playwright and poet, Amiri Baraka, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1984
interview.
As a young reader, Baraka's access to books was limited, but he finished
school at Howard University and later went on to join the Air Force,
where
he developed a love for books. Swaim brings up the speech-like quality
of Amiri Baraka's writing, explained by Baraka as trying to capture
the
sense of speech used in his community.
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