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Untitled by César Vallejo | Poems Rethabile Likes "Untitled" by César Vallejo Poet César Vallejo — read by Claudia Rankine . Find Vallejo's books 📖 Read along Untitled For several days, I have felt an exuberant, political need to love, to kiss affection on its two cheeks, and I have felt from afar a demonstrative desire, another desire to love, willingly or by force, whoever hates me, whoever rips up his paper, a little boy, the woman who cries for the man who was crying, the king of wine, the slave of water, whoever hid in his wrath, whoever sweats, whoever passes, whoever shakes his person in my soul. And I want, therefore, to adjust the braid of whoever talks to me; the hair of the soldier; the light of the great one; the greatness of the little one. I want to iron directly a ...

Untitled — James Baldwin | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! Civil Rights Activist • Poet • Playwright • born 2 August 1924 Today marks what would have been James Baldwin’s 102nd birthday. Best known for landmark works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time , Baldwin was also a gifted playwright, poet, and essayist. Below is his poem “Untitled,” which can be read as reflecting his lifelong struggle with faith. Raised by a strict, deeply religious stepfather who was also a preacher, Baldwin often explored the tensions between religion, identity, and freedom in his writing. Maya Angelou once said of him: “James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, t...