thoughtful varied comment by Alli Warren. "The slams were mostly predictable triumph-of-the-I stutter-paced anti-heroic epics, yes." I suppose that stutter-pace derives from the Beats, or perhaps more accurately beatniks. it's a stylistic norm, like that projective, from the diaphragm manner of singing in Broadway musicals. the focus of this post is a Baraka reading, a sense of whom, and a positive one, comes thru. I guess my brain's freezing up here. Warren takes Baraka at his Word. I'll leave it at that.