The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.

Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 7.85h x 4.89w x 1.62d
ISBN13: 9781560252382
ISBN10: 1560252383
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American | General

About the Author
Amiri Baraka is a critic, poet, playwright, and activist. He lives in Newark, NJ. William J. Harris is associate professor of English at SUNY-Stony Brook.