Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cul

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of

“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).

Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer

Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father of modern b