sentences:  Indeed, Rowell's introduction to "Angles of Ascent" references the "fetters of narrow political and social demands that have nothing to do with the production of artistic texts," evincing a political/apolitical dichotomy where the editor considers overly political works of lesser artistic value.Critic Emily Ruth Rutter recognizes the contribution to African American literary studies of "Angles of Ascent" yet also proposes adding Baraka and others to ensure students do not "unknowingly accept" the notion that Baraka and writers like him were somehow absent from influencing twenty-first century poetry.In "Rain Taxi", Richard Oyama criticized Baraka's militant aesthetic, writing that Baraka's "career came to represent a cautionary tale of the worst 'tendencies' of the 1960s—the alienating rejections, the fanatical self-righteousness, the impulse toward separatism and Stalinist repression versus multi-racial/class coalition-building ...