Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is a U.S. writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism.

Works

• Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicied Note, poems, 1961
• Blues Peple: Negro Music in White America, 1963
• Dutchman and The Slave, drama, 1964
• The System of Dante's Hell, novel, 1965
• Home: Social Essays, 1965
• Tales, 1967
• Black Magic, poems, 1969
• Four Black Revolutionary Plays, 1969
• In Our Terribleness, with Fundi (Billy Abernathy), poems and photography, 1970
• It's Nation Time, poems, 1970
• Raise Race Rays Raize: Essays Since 1965, 1971
• Hard Facts, poems, 1975
• The Motion of History and Other Plays, 1978
• Poetry for the Advanced, 1979
• reggae or not!, 1981
• Daggers and Javelins: Essays 1974-1979, 1984
• The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, 1984
• The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues, 1987
• Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, 1995
• Wise, Why?s Y?s, essays, 1995
• Funk Lore: New Poems, 1996.
• Somebody Blew Up America, 2001