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To Lose a Poet: Amiri Baraka Passes at 79 - The Brooklyn Quarterly
In the “Eulogy” he wrote on the passing of poet Louis Reyes Rivera, reprinted by The Liberator Magazine, Amiri Baraka described what it means to lose a poet: “If you know where the light is and it goes out it frightens and pours ice through you. Like somehow you got put out in the cold …