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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Tales
Author: The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Including6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.
Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri BarakaTales of the Out & the Gone
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka's new short story collection will shock and awe.
Digging
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943090
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book 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 Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane—and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
In Our Terribleness
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher:
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Category : African American
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"There are mostly portraits here. Portraits of life. Of life being lived. Black People inspire us. Send life into us ... We wanted to conjure with Black Life to recreate it for our selves. So that the connection with you would be a bigger Self"--From unnumbered page 13.
Transbluesency
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781568860145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
S O S
Author: Amiri BarakaPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191584
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
“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
Author: LeRoi Jones