Balwin

This piece has many finely tuned observations and anecdotes. Balwin is a writer who clearly conveys his feelings, which are continuously on the surface.

The part were he writes about making black people an abstraction reminds me of Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York. In this book, his poem entitled "blacks" observes how amazing black culture was in America, but it simultaneously objectifies black people, viewing them almost as a thing or phenomena rather than individual people.

Anyway, I did find his writing style to be a bit tedious. His sentences were pretty much all long, and many had too many layers. It made the reading slow. He used to many semi-colons. He also tends to re use words within his sentences. For example, the ninth paragraph uses the word rage about 3 or 4 times.