ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Wright Poems by Conrad Kent Rivers. One of the obstructions confronting the Black-American writer is the endless agony of countless destructive forces directed against his blackness. Being a Black artist in the USA one suffers an insane experience. Fact and fiction interchange in such a way that the writer begins to ask himself whether there is truly any difference. Conrad Kent Rivers sensitivity is such that even at his young age he was aware that something in his environment was causing a decomposition of his poet's soul, and he was struggling to find a way out of that death of the creative spirit which America has ordained for all Black writers who dare expose the ugliness of the American monster. Paris to Richard Wright was not merely an escape from the most racist country in the world it was a shouting, screaming, singing affirmation of the dignity of man.
