LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

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LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka

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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 This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.
Book Details
Publisher:
Basic Books
ISBN:
9781560252382
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
624
Authors:
Amiri Baraka
Published Date:
1999-11-01
Language:
English
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About Amiri Baraka

Born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) published his first major poetry collection, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (Totem Press, 1961). His 1964 play Dutchman won the Obie Award for best Off-Broadway American play. He founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School in Harlem in 1965 and served as Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002 to 2003. He received the PEN Open Book Award in 2008.

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