Kamau Daa'ood: World Stage's Poetic Physician

From: Los Angeles Sentinel | Date: November 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Michael Datcher
Los Angeles Sentinel
11-22-1995
Kamau Daa'ood: World Stage's Poetic Physician.

The healer speaks only after the tongue has been washed.

from "The Lip Drummer," by Kamau Daa'ood

A handsome and confident twenty something brother sits on the stool in front of the microphone, holding a piece of paper in his hand. He has just read a poem at the World Stage Anansi Writer's Workshop in Leimert Park. From the back of the crowded room, a man wearing a graying, Malcolm X (post-Mecca) beard speaks.

"Poetry is high speech, distilled language. It's concise truth that carries depth soaked in ...

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