The power of Sun Ra’s poetry

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Words for a better world

Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan delight, for instance, in telling anyone who would – or wouldn’t – listen that he came from Saturn.