Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note...

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... PDF Author: LeRoi Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note...

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note... PDF Author: LeRoi Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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S O S

S O S PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191584
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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“S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review

Transbluesency

Transbluesency PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
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ISBN: 9781568860145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time.

Wise, Why's, Y's

Wise, Why's, Y's PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 PDF Author: Donald Allen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209534
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary work-in-progress: the primary example for its time of the anthology-as-manifesto. Its republication today--complete with poems, statements on poetics, and autobiographical projections--provides us, again, with a model of how a contemporary anthology can and should be shaped. In these essentials it remains as fresh and useful a guide as it was in 1960."--Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Poems for the Millennium "The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry

EyeMinded

EyeMinded PDF Author: Kellie Jones
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082234873X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Selections of writing by the influential art critic and curator Kellie Jones reveal her role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists.

Beat Poets

Beat Poets PDF Author: Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375413324
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones’s plaintive “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” and Bob Kaufman’s stirring “Abomunist Manifesto” appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.

The Dead Lecturer

The Dead Lecturer PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: New York : Grove Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.

Un Poco Low Coups

Un Poco Low Coups PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Poetry. African American. In this latest chapbook from one of the 20th century's most vital and revolutionary authors, poems are set visually on canvas-like pages, blurring the line between visual and poetic art. "Whether it's politics, music, literature, or the origins of language, there is always a historical and time/place/condition reference that will always try to explain why I was saying both how and for what"--Amiri Baraka.

Dream Work

Dream Work PDF Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192416
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chrono­logically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive—continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the fail­ures of human relationships. Whether by way of inheritance—as in her poem about the Holocaust—or through a painful glimpse into the present—as in "Acid," a poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia—the events and tendencies of history take on a new importance here. More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind these poems has merged with the world. Mary Oliver's willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.