“Every crease is a story.”
Author
1934–2014
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.
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Blues people
Amiri Baraka, 1963

Dutchman and The Slave
Amiri Baraka, 1964
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others, 1973

The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others, 1973

Confirmation
Amiri Baraka & Amina Baraka, 1983

The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader
Amiri Baraka, 1991

Black music
Amiri Baraka, 1967

The baptism
Amiri Baraka, 1966

Dutchman and the Slave, Two Plays
Amiri Baraka, 1964

S O S
Amiri Baraka, 2014

The autobiography of Leroi Jones
Amiri Baraka, 2012
Arm Yourself, or Harm Yourself!
Amiri Baraka, 1967

Daggers and Javelins
Amiri Baraka, 1984
It's Nation Time
Amiri Baraka, 1970

Conversations with Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, 1994
Kawaida studies
Amiri Baraka, 1972
The toilet
Amiri Baraka, 1964

Black Fire
Amiri Baraka, Neal & others, 1968

The system of Dante's hell
Amiri Baraka, 1965

Four Black revolutionary plays
Amiri Baraka, 1969
Dutchman
Amiri Baraka, 1967

Raise, Race, Rays, Raze
Amiri Baraka, 1971

The Dead Lecturer
Amiri Baraka, 1964

Tales of the Out & the Gone
Amiri Baraka & Kevin R. Free, 2009

The fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, 2000
Insomniacathon
Amiri Baraka, 1999

Selected plays and prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
Amiri Baraka, 1979
The music
Amiri Baraka, 1987

Home; Social Essays
Amiri Baraka, 1966

The moderns
Amiri Baraka, 1963

Tales
Amiri Baraka, 1967

Transbluesency
Amiri Baraka, 1995
A Black Mass
Amiri Baraka, 2001

Eulogies
Amiri Baraka, 1996
Black art
Amiri Baraka

Digging
Amiri Baraka, 2009
Slave ship
Amiri Baraka, 1967
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note...
Amiri Baraka, 1961
Holandes, El
Amiri Baraka, 1991
Théatre noir, révolutionnaire
Amiri Baraka, 1972
The Sidney Poet Heroical
Amiri Baraka, 1979

Wise, Why's, Y's
Amiri Baraka, 1995
Life and Times of John Colt
Amiri Baraka
Cricket
Kodwo Eshun, A. B. Spellman & others, 2022

Lost & Found
Amiri Baraka, Edward Dorn & others, 2010

The Essence of Reparations
Amiri Baraka, 2007

Black Music. I Maestri Del Jazz
Amiri Baraka, 2012
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