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...
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years.
The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s.
The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 and 1965 in a collection of essays on urban life, boxing, black sexuality, Harlem, and the Cuban revolution.
Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra.
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
The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author.
A long poem in the tradition of the Djalʹi (Griots) ; it tries to tell the history/life like an ongoing-offcoming tale.
A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note