Amiri Baraka
Writing
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Known for
2025castelporziano ostia dei poeti
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2009Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
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2008Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
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2008New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Himself
2007Return to Gorée
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2007Turn Me On
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2006The Pact
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2006Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
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2006Poets at the Living Theater
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2005Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
1998Bulworth
Rastaman
1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
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1996W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
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1989James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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1987Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Himself
1982I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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1982Poetry in Motion
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1982Speaking in Tongues
1981Death of a Prophet
1978Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
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1972Nationtime
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19711 P.M.
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1969The New-Ark
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