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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader - 2nd Edition (Paperback)
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader - 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader - 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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About the Book The most comprehensive collection to date of Barakas work, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant 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. Book Synopsis 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 Barakas 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 This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography. 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.