Amiri Baraka

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

LeRoi Jones

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

Black Music

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

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

Transbluesency

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

Collected Poetry, 1961-1967

Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art

Du Bois and the U.S. Struggle for Democracy and Socialism, Excerpted from the LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

Black Reconstruction

Arthur Pfister

Beer Cans, Bullets, Things & Pieces. Introd

Negro Music in White America

Blues People

Amina Baraka

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 of jazz and blues, as well as critical comments on today's top performers. Black-and-white photographs.

Reflections on Jazz and Blues

The Music

A collection of fiction, poems, essays, and short plays explores the life of Black women in American society

Confirmation, an Anthology of AfricanAmerican Women

A Raisin in the Sun's Enduring Passion, Excerpted from a Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

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

Imamu Amiri Baraka

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