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“A Poet’s Search for Black Humanism: Requiem for Alvin Bernard Aubert.”

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African American/African Diaspora

EnglishJulius Fleming On January 7, 2014, black poet, playwright, short story writer, editor, and literary critic Alvin Aubert made his final transition, just two days before the passing of our beloved Amiri Baraka.Both losses dealt a forceful blow to audiences who have absorbed and wrestled with the word art of these two phenomenal writers whose love of blackness cut across any of their obvious differences. While Baraka was a canonized literary giant, a certain critical amnesia has enshrouded Aubert, who is, without a doubt, one of our great cultural workers. But in the wake of the unfortunate proximity of these two artists’ deaths, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to wrest Aubert from the grip of obscurity, and to better incorporate the richness of his life, his thought, and his creative production into the annals of our literary histories.“A Poet’s Search fo…Faculty62976Johns Hopkins University Press