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Excerpt from The 51st (dream) State by Sekou Sundiata:
"And what if we could show
that what we dream
is deeper than what we know?
Suppose if something does not live
in the world that we long to see
then we make it ourselves
as we want it to be..."
(NY Times) Sekou Sundiata poet and performance artist, died on Wednesday in Valhalla, N.Y. He was 58 and lived in Brooklyn.
The cause was heart failure, said his producer, Ann Rosenthal. At his death, Mr. Sundiata was a professor in the writing program of Eugene Lang College of New School University.
Mr. Sundiata’s art, which defied easy classification, ranged from poems performed in the style of an oral epic to musical, dance and dramatic works infused with jazz, blues, funk and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. In general, as he once said in a television interview, it entailed “the whole idea of text and noise, cadences and pauses.” (article)
Rest In Peace.
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yes... rest in peace.
thanks for posting this
... and he was supposed to be the featured artist-in-residence down here at the National Black Arts Festival this week (ATL).
Check out this excerpt from one of his poems. I can't help but go over it over and over and over again. It's deep how he summed up the complexities of dreams and reality in, like, two sentences:
And what if we could show
that what we dream
is deeper than what we know?
Suppose if something does not live
in the world that we long to see
then we make it ourselves
as we want it to be ...
(excerpt from The 51st (dream) State by Sekou Sundiata)
ooooooh
that's ill!
And your right Kamille, he summed it up QUITE proper in 2 sentences.
That's humbling to, I think. To accept that what we dream is deeper than what we know, and being able to understand that distance.
That's a dope concept.
good gawd. i'm reposting this with that quote added. some people need to get that in their inboxes tomorrow morning.
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