The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 and 1965 in a collection of essays on urban life, boxing, Black sexuality, Harlem, and the Cuban revolution
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"Baraka usually speaks as a Negro--and always as an American. He is eloquent, his is bold. He demands rights--not conditional favors." --New York Times Book Review "This is to date Baraka's most definitive, hence best work, on how it feels to be Black in a world dominated by white practicalities." --The Liberator
LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the N.J. Commission on Humanities, from 2002-2004. His last two books of poetry, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems and Un Poco Low Coup received tremendous critical acclaim.
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