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Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems

by Amiri Baraka

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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"

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Genres: Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 811.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999
LCC: PS3552 .A583 .S58 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
BISAC: POE POETRY General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 4
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Published: 2003
Genres: Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 811.54
LCC: PS3552 .A583 .S58

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