Principal Works
∗A Good Girl Is Hard to Find (drama) 1958
∗Cuba Libre (essay) 1961
∗Dante (drama) 1961; also produced as The Eighth Ditch, 1964
∗Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note…. (poetry) 1961
∗Blues People: Negro Music in White America (essay) 1963
∗The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America [editor] (anthology) 1963
∗The Baptism (drama) 1964
∗The Dead Lecturer: Poems (poetry) 1964
∗Dutchman (drama) 1964
∗The Slave (drama) 1964
∗The Toilet (drama) 1964
∗Experimental Death Unit #1 (drama) 1965
∗J-E-L-L-O (drama) 1965
∗The System of Dante's Hell (novel) 1965
∗A Black Mass (drama) 1966
∗Home: Social Essays (essays) 1966
Baptism (drama) 1966
Black Art (poetry) 1967
Black Music (essay) 1967
Madheart: A Morality Play (drama) 1967
Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant (drama) 1967
Tales (short stories) 1967
Black Spring (screenplay) 1968
Home on the Range (drama) 1968
Police (drama) 1968
Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry, 1961–1967 (poetry) 1969
Bloodrites (drama) 1970
It's Nation Time (poetry) 1970
Junkies Are Full of SHHH … (drama) 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
Spirit Reach (poetry) 1972
Afrikan Revolution (poetry) 1973
A Recent Killing (drama) 1973
Hard Facts: Excerpts (poetry) 1975
Sidnee Poet Heroical or If In Danger of Suit, The Kid Poet Heroical (drama) 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
S-1 (drama) 1976
America More or Less (musical) 1976
The Motion of History (drama) 1977
AM/TRAK (poetry) 1979
Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (dramas and prose) 1979
Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (poetry) 1979
The Sidnee Poet Heroical: In 29 Scenes (drama) 1979
Spring Song (poetry) 1979
What Was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production?: A Play in One Act (drama) 1979
"Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite" (essay) 1980; published in periodical Village Voice
In the Tradition: For Black Arthur Blythe (poetry) 1980
Boy and Tarzan Appear in a Clearing! (drama) 1981
"Sounding" (poetry) 1982; published in periodical Black American Literature Forum
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (autobiography) 1984
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974–79 (essays) 1984
"Wailers" (poem) 1985; published in periodical Callaloo
"Why's/Wise" (poem) 1985; published in periodical Southern Review
The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues [with Amina Baraka] (essay) 1987
"Reflections" (poem) 1988; published in periodical Black Scholar
Wise, Why's, Y'z (poetry) 1995
Transbluency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961–1995) (poetry) 1996
∗Published under the name LeRoi Jones.
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