{"title":"Amiri Baraka","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmiri Baraka (1934–2014) was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, and became one of the most forceful and controversial poets in American literary history. His early work, collected in \u003cem\u003ePreface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note\u003c\/em\u003e (Totem Press, 1961), showed the influence of the Beat Generation and Black Mountain poets. His 1964 play \u003cem\u003eDutchman\u003c\/em\u003e won an Obie Award and signaled a sharp political turn toward Black Nationalism. He later co-founded the Black Arts Movement and produced influential poetry collections including \u003cem\u003eBlack Magic\u003c\/em\u003e (1969). He served as Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002 to 2004 and received the PEN\/Beyond Margins Award in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"s-o-s-poems-1961-2013","title":"S O S: Poems 1961-2013","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e's 100 Notable Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume comprises the fullest spectrum of his rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to unpublished pieces composed during his final years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer in several genres (also published under the name LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. His legacy in world literature is matched by his widespread influence as an activist and cultural leader. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by the Black Arts Movement's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amiri Baraka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43825178050602,"sku":"9780802124685","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/s-o-s-poems-1961-2013-4200865.jpg?v=1763133350"},{"product_id":"autobiography-of-leroi-jones","title":"Autobiography of LeRoi Jones","description":"Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black Arts Movement, the prolific Baraka retells his experiences from his participation in avant-garde literature after World War II and his role in Black nationalism after the assassination of Malcolm X to his conversion to Islam and his commitments to an international socialist vision.  When \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of LeRoi Jones \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1984, the publisher made substantial cuts in the copy. Under the careful direction of the author, the book has been restored to its original form. This is the first complete and unexpurgated version of Baraka's life and work.","brand":"Amiri Baraka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43825188175914,"sku":"9781556522314","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/autobiography-of-leroi-jones-7274829.jpg?v=1763133350"},{"product_id":"leroi-jones-amiri-baraka-reader","title":"LeRoi Jones\/Amiri Baraka Reader","description":"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.","brand":"Amiri Baraka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43825188372522,"sku":"9781560252382","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/leroi-jonesamiri-baraka-reader-2435972.jpg?v=1763133349"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/amiri-baraka.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}