LeRoi Jones, Author, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author, Amiri Baraka, Author Lawrence Hill Books $32 (480p) ISBN 978-1-55652-346-5
Known for his poetry, plays and essays, Baraka, formerly Leroi Jones, hasn't been recognized for his searing, dense, experimental fiction, but that oversight will be corrected with this latest collection of his work. Fans of the activist-writer will
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Amiri Baraka, Author, Paul Vangelisti, Editor, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author Marsilio Publishers $17.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-56886-014-5
The poems selected here span from Baraka's first collection, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), to the long poem Wise, Why's, Y'z, published earlier this year. The best work here has been culled from his second and third books, The Dead
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Amiri Baraka, Author, Paul Vangelisti, Editor, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author Marsilio Publishers $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56886-013-8
The poems selected here span from Baraka's first collection, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), to the long poem Wise, Why's, Y'z, published earlier this year. The best work here has been culled from his second and third books, The Dead
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Amiri Baraka, Author, Imanu Amiri Baraka, Author, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author Marsilio Publishers $22.95 (180p) ISBN 978-1-56886-007-7
A poet, playwright, essayist and critic, the prolific Baraka is perhaps best known as a founder of the Black Arts movement during the 1960s, and as an all-around cultural agitator. In his Newark neighborhood and among jazz musicians and other...
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Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $24.95 (498p) ISBN 978-1-56025-006-7
In his eulogy of James Baldwin--one of this anthology's previously unpublished works--Baraka writes that Baldwin was ``turned all the way up, receiving and broadcasting . . . .'' The same can be said of Baraka. For more than 30 years he has been one
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Amiri Baraka, With, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04388-9
Poet and playwright Baraka and his poet wife here collect his recent talks, articles, book and record reviews about jazz, blues and soul, 34 poems, the text for an anti-nuclear jazz musical and 15 of her poems. Declaring that he is ""not a populist .
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