Amiri Baraka (1934–2014)
Author of Blues People: Negro Music in White America
About the Author
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Series
Works by Amiri Baraka
Black art 3 copies
5 ☥ Boptrees 2 copies
Rhythm Travel {short story} 2 copies
Jack Pot Melting: A Commercial 2 copies
Yugen #6 2 copies
When Miles Split! & Seven Poems 2 copies
Yugen #4 2 copies
Yugen #7 2 copies
A Poem for Black Hearts 2 copies
It's nation time 1 copy
Jello 1 copy
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 1 copy
“An Agony. As Now” 1 copy
The Toilet 1 copy
Why is We Americans? 1 copy
Short Speech to My Friends 1 copy
Yugen #2 1 copy
Yugen #3 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 1 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 2 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 3 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 4 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 5 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 6 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 8 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 17 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 19 1 copy
The Floating Bear, Issue 21 1 copy
New York Herald Tribune 1 copy
Yugen 1 copy
Obscene 1 copy
Cuentos 1 copy
El holandés. El esclavo 1 copy
De vuelta a casa 1 copy
cuba libre 1 copy
Bloodrites 1 copy
Ed Dorn & the Western World 1 copy
Chant 2 / Black Man's Nation 1 copy
Associated Works
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Contributor — 526 copies
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contributor — 270 copies
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contributor — 88 copies
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Contributor — 87 copies
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contributor — 69 copies
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributor — 43 copies
Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama (Mentor Series) (1992) — Playwright — 29 copies
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributor — 24 copies
19 Necromancers From Now: An Anthology of Original American Writings for the 1970s (1970) — Author — 11 copies
Life is a killer [sound recording] — Contributor — 2 copies
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work — Narrator, some editions — 1 copy
Niagara Frontier Review, Spring-Summer 1965 — Contributor — 1 copy
Niagara Frontier Review, Summer 1964 — Contributor — 1 copy
Poetry East : number twenty & twenty-one fall 1986 : poetics — Contributor — 1 copy
Epos : the work of American and British Poets (vol. 10, no. 2 Winter 1958) — Contributor — 1 copy
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contributor — 1 copy
Intrepid No. 5, 1st Anniversary Issue — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Baraka, Amiri
- Legal name
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri
- Other names
- Jones, Everett LeRoi (born)
Jones, LeRoi - Birthdate
- 1934-10-07
- Date of death
- 2014-01-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Place of death
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Newark, New Jersey, USA - Education
- Rutgers University
Columbia University
Howard University
The New School - Occupations
- political activist
poet
playwright
essayist
publisher
teacher (show all 7)
novelist - Relationships
- Jones, Hettie (ex-spouse)
Jones, Lisa (daughter)
Baraka, Ras (son)
Jones, Kellie (daughter) - Organizations
- US Air Force
- Awards and honors
- American Book Award (1989)
Langston Hughes Award (1989)
Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2001)
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Statistics
- Works
- 107
- Also by
- 61
- Members
- 3,408
- Popularity
- #7,476
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 33
- ISBNs
- 126
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 9