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Does the secret mind whisper?1960

Bob Kaufman.

by Bob Kaufman

"Comprising a single unpunctuated sentence, 'Secret Mind' rushes headlong through a murky and harrowing inner landscape that New World surrealists of African descent ... have made us somewhat cognizant of, if not familiar or comfortable with; but it also critically engages an external world of sterile information factories and sexualized commercial spectacle that nonetheless derives from an indigenous if not hybrid and murderous creative wellspring ... But while this litany of desirable status commodities is a typical Beat rant against materialism, Kaufman's critique is doubled in that the fetish objects shrugged off by counterculturals were also for the most part inaccessible to Black people ... Like Kaufman himself, an apocryphally Jewish and Martiniquan African American Catholic from...

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