| The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Contributor(s): Baraka, Amiri (Author), Harris, William J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1560252383 ISBN-13: 9781560252382 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $29.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1999 Annotation: The most comprehensive collection to date of Baraka's 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.540 |
| LCCN: 99032364 |
| Physical Information: 1.62" H x 4.89" W x 7.85" (1.33 lbs) 624 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography. |