Advertisement
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, 1979 Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called the father of modern black poetry. It confirms Amiri Baraka as one of the major figures of contemporary American poetry. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Transbluesency Amiri Baraka, 1995 A selection from Baraka's mostly out-of-print collecions of poetry, from 1961 to the present. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... LeRoi Jones, 1969 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: S O S Amiri Baraka, 2014 A New York Times Editors' Choice One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others (New York Times)--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, 2012-04-01 The complete autobiography of a literary legend. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Tales of the Out & the Gone Amiri Baraka, 2009-12-01 Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka's new short story collection will shock and awe. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Amiri Baraka, 2014 The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA & OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction... Readers of course will want as quick as possible to read for them-self the now controversial title poem..., but check-out, among the others, In Town'--pure-pure dark post-Plantation molasses...--Kamau Brathwaite Poetry. African American Studies. Fifth printing. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Conversations with Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, 1994 Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Razor Amiri Baraka, 2012 Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society's intellectual superstructure, this collection of revolutionary essays by literary and cultural legend Amiri Baraka raises numerous issues concerning contemporary African American life. The socially conscious will appreciate the creative analyses and stimulating critiques on display here, buoyed by Baraka's distinctive, bold, and aggressive opinions about the ways our culture bestows ignorance upon the ignorant merely to exploit them. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Transbluesency Amiri Baraka, 1995 Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Home; Social Essays Amiri Baraka, 1966 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Reggae Or Not! Amiri Baraka, 1981 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Tales Amiri Baraka, 2016-02-16 “A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews). “Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement’s expression of the ‘Black Aesthetic,’ which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was also a master of the short story form, as this collection attests. Tales first appeared in 1967 and is an impressionistic and sometimes surrealistic collection of short fiction, showcasing Amiri Baraka’s great impact on African American literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Tales is a critical volume in Amiri Baraka’s oeuvre, and an important testament to his remarkable literary legacy.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. The sixteen artful and nuanced stories in this reissue of Amiri Baraka’s seminal 1967 collection fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavor to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction—provocative, witty, and, at times, bitter and aggressive. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Eulogies Amiri Baraka, 1996 Here, for the first time, a major African-American writer gathers in one volume the eulogies he has written and spoken, in poetry and prose, over the last 30 years. Eulogies shows Amiri Baraka's writing at its most personal and profound; the solemnity of his subject matter leads Baraka to meditate on matters both political and spiritual, to examine the status of African-Americans in the United States and ultimately to reflect on the nature of life and death. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: S O S Amiri Baraka, 2015-03-03 “S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Imamu Amiri Baraka, William J. Harris, 1991 Amiri Baraka-dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, & fiction writer-is perhaps the preeminent African-American literary figure of our time. Yet, until now, it has been impossible to find the full range of his work represented in one volume. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning more than thirty years of a brilliant, prolific, & controversial career in which he has produced a dozen books of poetry, twenty-six plays, eight collections of essays & speeches, & two books of fiction. This essential anthology also contains previously unpublished work-including essays on Jesse Jackson & James Baldwin-as well as a chronology & a full bibliography. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader includes poems from Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, The Dead Lecturer, Black Magic, Hard Facts, It's Nation Time, & Poetry for the Advanced; the plays Dutchman, Great Goodness of Life, & What Was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production?; essays from Blues People, Social Essays, Black Music, Daggers & Javelins, & The Music: Reflections on Jazz & Blues; & much, much more. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: The Dead Lecturer Amiri Baraka, 1964 Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, 2000 For the first time under one cover, then, here is the collected fiction of one of America's greatest writers.--BOOK JACKET. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: To Raise, Destroy, and Create Henry C. Lacey, 1981 A study of the works of Imamu Amiri Baraka written between 1960 and 1970. Baraka is represented as an example of black America searching for identity, purpose and direction. This search, examined by Lacey, is embodied by Baraka's achievements. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: It's Nation Time Amiri Baraka, 1970 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes, 2017-08-08 This award-winning novel is a powerful exploration of self, an homage to spoken-word poetry, and an intriguing look into the life of eighteen teens. When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Brilliant Flame! Haki R. Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, Woodie King (Jr.), Gwendolyn Ann Mitchell, 2018 An intergenerational collection of writing from poets, dramatists, musicians, educators, historians and cultural workers and theorists examining the work and influence of Amiri Baraka. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Lunch Poems Frank O'Hara, 2014-06-10 Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental The New American Poetry in 1960, it contains some of the poet's best known works including The Day Lady Died, Ave Maria and Poem Lana Turner has collapsed ]. This new limited 50th anniversary edition contains a preface by John Ashbery and an editor's note by City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, along with facsimile reproductions of a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between Ferlinghetti and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of Lunch. Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theater tickets and phonograph records, turns 50 this year. It seems barely to have aged . . . This is a book worth imbibing again, especially if you live in Manhattan, but really if you're awake and curious anywhere. O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age.--Dwight Garner, The New York Times City Lights' new reissue of the slim volume includes a clutch of correspondence between O'Hara and Lawrence Ferlinghetti . . . in which the two poets hash out the details of the book's publication: which poems to consider, their order, the dedication, and even the title. 'Do you still like the title Lunch Poems?' O'Hara asks Ferlinghetti. 'I wonder if it doesn't sound too much like an echo of Reality Sandwiches or Meat Science Essays.' 'What the hell, ' Ferlinghetti replies, 'so we'll have to change the name of City Lights to Lunch Counter Press.'--Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review Frank O'Hara's famed collection was first published in 1964, and, to mark the fiftieth anniversary, City Lights is printing a special edition.--The New Yorker The volume has never gone out of print, in part because O'Hara expresses himself in the same way modern Americans do: Like many of us, he tries to overcome the absurdity and loneliness of modern life by addressing an audience of anonymous others.--Micah Mattix, The Atlantic I hope that everyone will delight in the new edition of Frank's Lunch Poems. The correspondence between Lawrence and Frank is great. Frank was just 33 when he wrote to Lawrence in 1959 and 38 when LUNCH POEMS was published The fact that City Lights kept Frank's LUNCH POEMS in print all these years has been extraordinary, wonderful and a constant comfort. Hurray for independent publishers and independent bookstores. Many thanks always to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and everyone at City Lights.--Maureen O'Hara, sister of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems--which has just been reissued in a 50th anniversary hardcover edition--recalls a world of pop art, political and cultural upheaval and (in its own way) a surprising innocence.--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Four Black Revolutionary Plays LeRoi Jones, 1971 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Incidents of Travel in Poetry Frank Lima, 2016 Frank Lima is an American Villon.--David Shapiro Highly recommended for -reasons that go beyond historical -completeness.--Library Journal, starred review This collection is not to be missed.--Publishers Weekly, starred review Prot'g' of Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Allen Ginsberg, Frank Lima (1939-2013) was the only Latino member of the New York School during its historical heyday. After enduring a difficult and violent childhood, he discovered poetry as an inmate of a juvenile drug treatment center under the tutelage of the painter, Sherman Drexler, who introduced him to his poet friends. After his poetry debut in the Evergreen Review in 1962, Lima appeared in key New York School anthologies and published two full-length collections of his own. In the late 1970s, Lima left the poetry world to pursue a successful career as a chef, though he returned intermittently and continued to write a poem a day until his death. Incidents of Travel in Poetry is a landmark re-introduction to the work of this major Latino poet. Beginning with poems from Inventory (1964), his installment in the legendary Tibor de Nagy poetry series, Incidents includes selections from Lima's previous volumes, tracing his development from his early snapshots of street life to his later surrealist-influenced abstract lyricism. The bulk of the collection comes from his later unpublished manuscripts, and thus Incidents represents the full range of Lima's work for the very first time. Praise for Incidents of Travel in Poetry Finally. Finally. Finally. Here's the Frank Lima collection that poetry lovers worldwide have been waiting for. Lima was an authentic outlier and Incidents of Travel transcends and decolonizes any attempt at easy categorization. With this new body of work, we are reaping the price Lima paid for being ostracized. Our reward? The dream we wish we could have, whispers that hint of a new waste land, and we'll always be in his debt for having Lima as a guide.--Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon. Frank Lima is a masterful writer of ecstatic, devastating, and hauntingly personal poetry. His candor is irresistible and transformative, as cuttingly witty in one poem as elegiac and sorrowful in the next. Complete with its nuances and disappointments, nobody writes the poetry of domestic reverence quite like Lima. In this generous selection of work from the poet's life, including poetry from 1997 onward, we can finally solidify Lima as a figure of crucial importance to our understanding of the New York School writers. This work shines with all the love and labor of Lima's thoroughly American experience, one which is inextricable from the trauma of cultural duality. Lima's voice speaks to us like an intimate friend, a co-conspirator in hope. 'Blessed are the poets who invented us as poets, ' he writes in a poem for David Shapiro, an ode to both his best friend and to poetry. Blessed are we now to have this landmark collection of work from Frank Lima. This book is a long overdue treasure.--Wendy Xu From his first contact with poetry while incarcerated as a juvenile offender in Harlem, through his meetings with Langston Hughes and Frank O'Hara, his years with Berkson and Padgett and Berrigan, his stint as a chef, and his years of living his Vow to Poetry when he wrote at least a poem a day in total obscurity--Lima's life is an epic of contradictions. Frank Lima is a poet the world has been waiting to discover. Now we can.--Bob Holman |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn Amiri Baraka, Edward Dorn, 2013-12 The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Dutchman Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1967 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, 1980 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, 1979 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Wise, Why's, Y's Amiri Baraka, 1995 A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep Michael S. Harper, Anthony Walton, 1994 A collection of postwar African-American poetry showcases the works of such poets as Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and others. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Somebody Blew Up America Amiri Baraka, 2003 African American Studies. An important new work from this major american writer. The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA AND OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Africa in Stereo Tsitsi Jaji, 2014 Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- Négritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post- )pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Raise, Race, Rays, Raze Amiri Baraka, 1971 This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Black Fire Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1971 |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: How I Became Hettie Jones Hettie Jones, 1997 Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and early 1960s, this memoir is a deeply moving look at the spirit of the artist and the birth of an era. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson, 2012-02-08 Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016) In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections tying them together. The poems raise large questions about the natural world and our place in it, and they do not flinch from facing up to those questions. Roberson's poems range widely through different scales of time and space, invoking along the way history and myth, galaxies and garbage trucks, teapots and the history of photography, mating cranes and Chicago's political machine. This collection is composed of five sequences, each developing a particular constellation of images and ideas related to the vision of the whole. Various journeys become one journey—an epic journey, invoking epic themes. There are songs of creation, pictures of the sorrows of war, celebrations of human labor and human society, a respect for tools and domestic utensils that are well made, the deep background of the past tingeing the colors of the present, and the tragic tones of endings and laments, a pervading awareness of the tears in things. Most of all, there is the exhilaration of a grand, sweeping vision that enlarges our world. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: The Hand of the Poet Berg Collection, Rodney Phillips, New York Public Library, 1997 Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's The Wild Swans at Coole and W. H. Auden's Stop All the Clocks - make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem. Illustrated with over three hundred black-and-white photographs, The Hand of the Poet is for those new to poetry as well as those for whom poetry has been a life-long passion. |
| imamu amiri baraka poems: Funk Lore Amiri Baraka, 1996 This new book of previously uncollected poetry (1984-1995) demonstrates Baraka's gift for the music of thought, and reveals his continued mastery of tone and performance. Engaging in the primary issues of African-American music and contemporary politics, and imbuing his homages to such grand figures of America as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane with a passion that has not abated over the years, Baraka glories in his own virtuosity.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
5 Must-Read Poems By Amiri Baraka That Will Change Your …
Jan 9, 2023 · In homage of Baraka’s contributions and in observance of the 9th anniversary of his passing, here are 5 must-read poems by Amiri Baraka that will change your outlook on life …
Amiri Baraka | The Poetry Foundation
M.L. Rosenthal wrote in The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II that these poems show Baraka’s “natural gift for quick, vivid imagery and spontaneous humor.” Rosenthal …
Amiri Baraka - Wikipedia
His notable poems include "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and …
Amiri Baraka - Poet Amiri Baraka Poems - Poem Hunter
Some poems that are always associated with his name are "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the …
Poems by Amiri Baraka - Poetry Platform
His notable poems include 'The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues', 'The Book of Monk', and 'New Music, New Poetry', works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature. …
Ka 'Ba - Poem by Imamu Amiri Baraka - Famous Poets and Poems
Ka 'Ba by Imamu Amiri Baraka - A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and black people call across or scream or walk across defying physic
Imamu Amiri Baraka Poems | Poems by Imamu Amiri Baraka
A collection of select Imamu Amiri Baraka famous poems that were written by Imamu Amiri Baraka or written about the poet by other famous poets. PoetrySoup is a comprehensive educational …
Amiri Baraka Poems - InternetPoem.com
4 days ago · Poet Amiri Baraka, All Poems of Amiri Baraka and best poem of Amiri Baraka, his/her biography, comments and quotations.
The Poems of Amiri Baraka - Portside
Apr 29, 2015 · Editor Paul Vangelisti has brought together the complete contents of two previous collections he edited, Transbluesency: the Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones 1961 …
About Amiri Baraka - Academy of American Poets
Poet, playwright, and social advocate Amiri Baraka, considered one of the founders of the Black Arts movement, was known for his outspoken stance against police brutality and racial …
5 Must-Read Poems By Amiri Baraka That Will Change You…
Jan 9, 2023 · In homage of Baraka’s contributions and in observance of the 9th anniversary of his passing, here are 5 must-read poems by Amiri Baraka …
Amiri Baraka | The Poetry Foundation
M.L. Rosenthal wrote in The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II that these poems show Baraka’s “natural gift for quick, vivid …
Amiri Baraka - Wikipedia
His notable poems include "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics …
Amiri Baraka - Poet Amiri Baraka Poems - Poem Hunter
Some poems that are always associated with his name are "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, …
Poems by Amiri Baraka - Poetry Platform
His notable poems include 'The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues', 'The Book of Monk', and 'New Music, New Poetry', works that draw on topics from the …
