Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995)
- ISBN-10
- 1568860145
- ISBN-13
- 9781568860145
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Marsilio Pub
- Author
- Amiri Baraka
Description
A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
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