Books written by Imamu Amiri Baraka
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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader includes poems from Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, The Dead Lecturer, Black Magic, Hard Facts, It's Nation Time, & Poetry for the Advanced; the plays Dutchman, Great Goodness of Life, & What Was ...
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
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.
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Somebody Blew Up America, & Other Poems
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.
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Confirmation, an Anthology of AfricanAmerican Women
A collection of fiction, poems, essays, and short plays explores the life of Black women in American society
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Wise, Why's, Y's
A long poem in the tradition of the Djalʹi (Griots) ; it tries to tell the history/life like an ongoing-offcoming tale.
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The System of Dante's Hell
The System of Dante's Hell
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
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
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An Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Poetry Sampler: U.K. Tour, May 1991
An Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Poetry Sampler: U.K. Tour, May 1991
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Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems
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Jesse Jackson and Black People
Jesse Jackson and Black People
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Home: Social Essays
Home: Social Essays
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Blues people: von der Sklavenmusik zum Bebop
Blues people: von der Sklavenmusik zum Bebop
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Syndrom Syzyfa
Syndrom Syzyfa
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Un poema para Willie Best
Un poema para Willie Best
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The Floating Bear: A Newsletter
The Floating Bear: A Newsletter
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Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
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
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Reggae Or Not!: Poems
Reggae Or Not!: Poems
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It's Nation Time
It's Nation Time
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The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues
The acclaimed author of Blues People and Black Music returns to the subject of music for the first time in two decades with this collection of essays on the history...