Somebody Blew Up America

This week I read, Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka. It was the longest poem I read for poetry class. On top of reading it, I also watched a clip on Youtube; Amiri Baraka read his poem while Rob Brown played the saxophone. I enjoyed both the poem and the performance. The poem is flowing with references to terrorism. Actually every line questions who the real terrorist is in the modern era while citing terrorist actions from the past. The past being the history of America that involve both, evil deeds and terroristic fear that helped bring about an ideology.   He compares the evil deeds to those who "blew up" America and in many cases, makes them appear much worse, even related. The poem names a bunch of evil deeds but does not mention directly who the evil doer is. I find the entire poem and it's question genius.