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Imamu Amiri Baraka has written 46 work(s)
A fuller version of the author's autobiography, without the cuts made by a previous publisher, details his life through 1974, and explains the development of his Black Nationalist views and his embrace of Islam and Marxism.
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9781556522314 | Chicago Review Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A fuller version of the author's autobiography, without the cuts made by a previous publisher, details his life through 1974, and explains the development of his Black Nationalist views and his embrace of Islam and Marxism.
Product Description: A reassessment of Jesse Jackson's failed campaigns for President and the black vote in America.
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9780883781685 | Third World Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $30.10 | About this edition: A reassessment of Jesse Jackson's failed campaigns for President and the black vote in America.
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9780883781593 | Third World Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A reassessment of Jesse Jackson's failed campaigns for President and the black vote in America.
Product Description: 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...read more
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9781557132963 | Sun & Moon Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.
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9780883781500 | Third World Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.
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9780883780473 | Third World Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.
Hardcover:
9781568860138 | Marsilio Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
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9781568860145 | Marsilio Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
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9780679755319 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1995), cover price $15.00
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
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9780028840000, titled "The Encyclopedia of Criminology" | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $310.00 | also contains Conversations With Amiri Baraka, Conversations With Amiri Baraka, The Encyclopedia of Criminology
9780878056866 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, April 1, 1994, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
Product Description: Contains essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, Bob Neloms, Cecil McBee, Craig Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Chico Freeman Dennis Moorman, and other contemporary musicians as well as reflections on soul, modern trends, and other aspects of the history of jazz and blues...read more
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9780688043889 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Contains essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, Bob Neloms, Cecil McBee, Craig Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Chico Freeman Dennis Moorman, and other contemporary musicians as well as reflections on soul, modern trends, and other aspects of the history of jazz and blues.
Hardcover:
9780938232360 | Winston-Derek Pub, January 1, 1985, cover price $6.95
The changing ideas of the renowned playwright, poet, and author, also known as LeRoi Jones, are chronicled in a collection of essays
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9780688034313 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1984), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The changing ideas of the renowned playwright, poet, and author, also known as LeRoi Jones, are chronicled in a collection of essays
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9780688015824 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A collection of fiction, poems, essays, and short plays explores the life of Black women in American society
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9780936556048 | Contact II Pubns, August 1, 1981, cover price $3.00
An examination of the evolution and philosophy of African American music
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Hardcover:
9780313225192 | Praeger Pub Text, August 11, 1980, cover price $90.00
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9780688184742 | 1 edition (Perennial, June 1, 1963), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: An examination of the evolution and philosophy of African American music
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9780394172538 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: UNREAD, crisp, fresh, copy.
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9780688084967 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1979, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems, some recent and some previously out-of-print, includes Malcolm Remembered (Feb.
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9780918408129 | Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub, June 1, 1979, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: drama
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9780394179001 | Grove Pr, March 1, 1976, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A novel, sixteen short stories, brief lyrics, and long, major poems evoke Baraka's agony and hostility due to the injustices against his people
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9780672506727 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1969, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: An abandoned fierce pride in the fact of being black underlies these four one-act plays which portray, in explosive, hard-hitting language, LeRoi's conception of the black experience
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9781617753961, titled "The System of Dante's Hell" | Reprint edition (Akashic Books, February 16, 2016), cover price $15.95
9780394171104 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1965, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Portrays a black man's early life in Northern slums and a small Southern town, as he struggles within the white structures of Dante's hell
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9780688210847 | Perennial, June 1, 1964, cover price $9.99
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