*Principal Works
PLAYS
A Good Girl Is Hard to Find 1958
"Dante" 1961; also produced as "The Eighth Ditch" 1964
"The Baptism" 1964
"Dutchman" 1964
"The Slave" 1964
"The Toilet" 1964
"Experimental Death Unit #1" 1965
"J-E-L-L-O" 1965
A Black Mass 1966
"The Death of Malcolm X" 1966
"Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself: A One-Act Play: A
Message of Self-Defense to Black Men" 1967
"Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show)" 1967
"Madheart: A Morality Play" 1967
"Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant" 1967
"Home on the Range" 1968
Police 1968
Four Black Revolutionary Plays: All Praises to the Black man 1969
"Resurrection in Life" 1969
Bloodrites 1970
Junkies Are Full of Shhh… 1970
Columbia The Gem of The Ocean 1973
A Recent Killing 1973
The New Ark's A-Moverin 1974
The Sidnee Poet Heroical or If in Danger of Suit, The Kid Poet Heroical 1975
s-1 1976
The Motion of History 1977
The Motion of History and Other Plays 1978
Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (dramas and prose) 1979
"The Sidnee Poet Heroical: In 29 Scenes" 1979
"What Was The Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production: A Play in One Act" 1979
Dim'Crackr Party Convention 1980
Boy & Tarzan Appear In A Clearing! 1981
Money: A Jazz Opera 1982
"Song: a One Act Play about the Relationship of Art to Real Life" 1983
OTHER MAJOR WORKS
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note… (poetry) 1961
Cuba Libre (essay) 1961
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (essay) 1963
The Dead Lecturer: Poems (poetry) 1964
"The Revolutionary Theatre" (essay) 1965; published in periodical Liberator
The System of Dante's Hell (novel) 1965
Home: Social Essays (essays) 1966
Black Art (poetry) 1967
Black Music (essay) 1967
Tales (short stories) 1967
Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry, 1961-1967 (poetry) 1969
Black Spring (screenplay) 1968
In Our Terribleness (Some Elements and Meaning in Black Style) (poetry) 1970
It's Nation Time (poetry) 1970
A Fable (screenplay) 1971
Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays since 1965 (essays) 1971
Strategy and Tactics of a Pan-African Nationalist Party (essay) 1971
Supercoon (screenplay) 1971
Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism (essay) 1972
Spirit Reach (poetry) 1972
Afrikan Revolution (poetry) 1973
Crisis in Boston! (essay) 1974
Hard Facts: Excerpts (poetry) 1975
Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): The System of Dante's Hell, Tales, The Dead Lecturer (novel, short stories, and poetry) 1975
AM/TRAK (poetry) 1979
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (poetry) 1979
"Afro-American Literature and Class Struggle" (essay) 1980; published in periodical Black American Literature Forum
"Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite" (essay) 1980; published in periodical Village Voice In the Tradition: For Black Arthur Blythe (poetry) 1980
Reggae or Not! (poetry) 1981
In the Tradition (poetry) 1982
"Sounding" (poetry) 1982; published in journal Black American Literature Forum
The Descent of Charlie Fuller into Pulitzerland and the Need for Afro-American Institutions (essay) 1983
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (autobiography) 1984
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 (essays) 1984
"Wailers" (poetry) 1985; published in periodical Callaloo
"Why;s/Wise" (poetry) 1985; published in periodicalSouthern Review
The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (essay) 1987
"Reflections" (poetry) 1988; published in periodical Black Scholar
*Works before 1967 were published under the name LeRoi Jones.
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