Oct 14, 2008

The Poetry of Baraka | The Poetry of Baraka

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Author: Everett LeRoi Jones
First Published: 1961
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Pan-Africanism, Communism or communists, Politics, Socialism, Self, Ethnic relations, Popular culture

While Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) is a leading African American poet, his poetry accounts for only one part of his literary career. He has also written essays, short stories, a novel, a major study of American jazz, plays, a musical drama, and an autobiography. He has founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater-School, edited seminal anthologies and journals of avant-garde and African American writing, received major scholarly fellowships and awards, taught at several major American universities, and been an influential political and cultural leader in the African American community....

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The Poetry of Baraka | The Poetry of Baraka

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