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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

By: Amiri Baraka

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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

By: Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.

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624

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Basic Books

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1560252383

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9781560252382

S O S

Poems 1961–2013

By: Amiri Baraka

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S O S

Poems 1961–2013

By: Amiri Baraka

“S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). 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volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review

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448

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802191584

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9780802191588

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

By: Amiri Baraka

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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

By: Amiri Baraka

The complete autobiography of a literary legend.

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494

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Chicago Review Press

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1613745893

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9781613745892

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

By: Amiri Baraka

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Conversations with Amiri Baraka

By: Amiri Baraka

Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer

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296

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878056874

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9780878056873

Transbluesency

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

By: Amiri Baraka

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

By: Amiri Baraka

Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time.

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300

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1568860145

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9781568860145

Tales of the Out & the Gone

By: Amiri Baraka

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Tales of the Out & the Gone

By: Amiri Baraka

Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka's new short story collection will shock and awe.

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203

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Akashic Books

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ISBN 10

1933354127

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9781933354125

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

The Collected Letters

By: Amiri Baraka,Edward Dorn

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The Collected Letters

By: Amiri Baraka,Edward Dorn

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.

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248

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826353916

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9780826353917

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

By: Amiri Baraka

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By: Amiri Baraka

Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer

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296

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878056874

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Blues People

Negro Music in White America

By: Amiri Baraka

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Blues People

Negro Music in White America

By: Amiri Baraka

Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created.

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244

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0688011721

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9780688011727

Black Music

By: Leroi (amiri Imamu Baraka) Jones

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Black Music

By: Leroi (amiri Imamu Baraka) Jones

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People.

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216

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Akashiclassics: Renegade Repri

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1636140858

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9781636140858

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

The Collected Letters

By: Amiri Baraka,Edward Dorn

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The Collected Letters

By: Amiri Baraka,Edward Dorn

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826353916

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Social Essays

By: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

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Social Essays

By: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

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.

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289

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Akashic Books

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1933354674

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9781933354675

EyeMinded

Living and Writing Contemporary Art

By: Kellie Jones,Amiri Baraka

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Living and Writing Contemporary Art

By: Kellie Jones,Amiri Baraka

Selections of writing by the influential art critic and curator Kellie Jones reveal her role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists.

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530

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Duke University Press

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082234873X

ISBN 13

9780822348733

S O S

Poems 1961–2013

By: Amiri Baraka

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S O S

Poems 1961–2013

By: Amiri Baraka

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802191584

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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

S O S

S O S

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

Transbluesency

Transbluesency

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

Conversations with Amiri Baraka

Blues People

Blues People

Black Music

Black Music

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

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Home

EyeMinded

EyeMinded

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