Download or read book The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader written by Amiri Baraka and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction. This updated edition contains over 50 pages of previously unpublished work, as well as a chronology and full bibliography.