Amiri Baraka
Author
Series
Apollo editions ; A-122
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Two short plays, dramatizations of the racial dilemma in America.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father of modern black poetry." It confirms Amiri Baraka as one of the major figures of contemporary American poetry.
Author
Publisher
Littoral Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This new book of previously uncollected poetry (1984-1995) demonstrates Baraka's gift for the music of thought, and reveals his continued mastery of tone and performance. Engaging in the primary issues of African-American music and contemporary politics, and imbuing his homages to such grand figures of America as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane with a passion that has not abated over the years, Baraka...
Author
Publisher
Marsilio Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Starting with a Preface to a twenty volume suicide note, and including many out-of-print and limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, Transbluesency: the selected poems of Amiri Baraka concisely illuminates Baraka's almost single-handed renovation of both the nature and form of post-WWII African American literature, and his profound influence on a generation of poets of all ethnic backgrounds.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero. The first section of the book, "War Stories," offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, "Tales of the Out & the Gone," reveals Amiri Baraka's increasing literary adventurousness,...
