Jan 2, 2010
Amiri Baraka has been a cultural activist and professional writer for more than four decades and in that time has produced a wide range of works, including plays, essays, stories, and poems. Best known for dramas produced in the 1960’s (The Baptism, pr. 1964; The Toilet, pr., pb. 1964), he has also written a novel (The System of Dante’s Hell, 1965), collections of poetry (Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, 1961), The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984), and several books on black music (Blues...
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