Collected poems · space poetry recordings · broadsides · myth-science texts
"I come from a dream the black man dreamed long ago…"
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Also appears in the Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968), eds. Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal. Frequently cited and quoted in Poetry Foundation essay "My Music Is Words."
Released as spoken-word performance on Norton Records (2010). Characteristic of Ra's declamatory cosmic-science verse.
Released as spoken-word performance on Norton Records (2013). Title poem of that release, blending travel imagery with cosmic liberation themes.
Released as spoken-word performance on Norton Records (2010). Dense prophetic-apocalyptic language typical of Ra's early Philadelphia period.