The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s.
A long poem in the tradition of the Djalʹi (Griots) ; it tries to tell the history/life like an ongoing-offcoming tale.
African American Studies. An important new work from this major american writer. "The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA AND OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the...
I sometimes disagree insistently with Amiri, and it's mutual; but when he gets past his parochial pyrotechnics, as in choruses in this book, he brings you into the life force of this music."—Nat Hentoff, author of The Jazz Life
Reggae Or Not!: Poems
The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
It's Nation Time
Poetry. African American. In this latest chapbook from one of the 20th century's most vital and revolutionary authors, poems are set visually on canvas-like pages, blurring the line between visual...
"Written between 1960 and 1965, Home documents a critical time in American history as well as a crucial stage in the development of one of the most influential writers, activists,...
This compilation of more than 30 years' worth of elegiac prose and oratory by dramatist, poet, and commentator Amiri Baraka is dedicated to such figures as James Baldwin, Miles Davis,...
Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society's "intellectual superstructure," this collection of revolutionary essays by literary and cultural legend Amiri Baraka raises numerous issues concerning ...
Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father of modern black poetry."...
Il popolo del blues. Sociologia degli afroamericani attraverso il jazz
A collection of poems, some recent and some previously out-of-print, includes Malcolm Remembered (Feb. '77), 3rd World Blues, Nixon, Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
African American Studies. "Baraka sees the struggle for reparations not as an end in itself but as part of a wider struggle for full citizenship and equal rights in a...
In the essay “Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: “Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music ,...
While many texts are readily available chronicling the Black Power Movement, the same cannot be said for its "aesthetic and spiritual sister," the Black Arts Movement. Black Fire: An Anthology...
Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer