Amiri Baraka

LeRoi Jones

A collection of poems written by a young Negro poet between 1957 and 1961, reflect the contemporary black experience in America

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Poetry. African American Studies. "The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA & OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction... Readers of course will want as quick as possible to read for them-self the now controversial title poem..., but check-out, among the others, "In Town"--pure-pure dark post-Plantation molasses..."--Kamau Brathwaite.

Somebody Blew Up America, & Other Poems

Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra

Black Music

The System of Dante's Hell

A fuller version of the author's autobiography, without the cuts made by a previous publisher, details his life through 1974, and explains the development of his Black Nationalist views and his embrace of Islam and Marxism.

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

“A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of The Inferno.” —Kirkus Reviews This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante’s Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, and treachery. With a poet’s skill, Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul—lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive. With an introduction by Woodie King Jr. “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —The New York Times Book Review “It’s a tortured nightmare, excruciatingly honest and alive, painful and beautiful . . .” —Michael Rumaker, author of A Day and a Night at the Baths

A Novel

Molefi Asante

One of America's prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African Americans over three centuries. This unique volume captures the struggle and hope persistent in the movement for social justice. The voices of famous activists like Du Bois, Douglass, and Malcolm X, joined by those of laborers, women, and other African American citizens, reveal how the historical record of oppression and resistance coalesced into a national and international movement.

Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal : an African American Anthology

Let Nobody Turn Us Around

Thomas McEvilley

Thornton Dial

Image of the Tiger

An Anthology of New Writing in America

The Moderns

The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995) (1961-1995)

Transbluesency

Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka's new short story collection will shock and awe.

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Collects some of the author's poetry, spanning his decades-long career as an outspoken advocate against opression.

Poems 1961-2013

S O S

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Hard Facts

A long poem in the tradition of the Djalʹi (Griots) ; it tries to tell the history/life like an ongoing-offcoming tale.

Wise, Why's, Y's

For the first time under one cover, then, here is the collected fiction of one of America's greatest writers."--BOOK JACKET.

The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

Dutchman

LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka's thoughts during that turbulent period.

Tales

The Motion of History, and Other Plays

The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA & OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction... Readers of course will want as quick as possible to read for them-self the now controversial title poem..., but check-out, among the others, In Town'--pure-pure dark post-Plantation molasses...--Kamau Brathwaite Poetry. African American Studies. Fifth printing.

Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems

August Wilson

A collection of nine plays written between 1975 and 1990 includes contributions by George C. Wolfe, Amiri Baraka, P.J. Gibson, Alexander Simmons, and August Wilson

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