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'I was listening to Amiri Baraka on radio one morning. Vicki Viidikas introduced me to Baraka’s work years ago. At that time he was known as LeRoi Jones and his Tales in a Grove Press Black Cat paperback were an amazing breakthrough of fictional possibility. The movie Dutchman was a brilliant tour de force. Originally associated with the Beats, he later took up an Afro-American position and changed his name. Later still, after seeing the limitations of nationalist and race politics, he moved on to become one of the very few truly progressive, radical writers in the USA.' 

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 56-58
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