From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn, two self-consciously avant-garde poets, fostered an intense friendship primarily through correspondence. Their letters…

One of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books

WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK

Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one…

The most comprehensive collection to date of Baraka’s work, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays…

Drawing from both scholars and friends of Amiri Baraka, this collection reassesses Baraka’s multilayered creative output.

The hard times faced by steelworkers and miners in America’s rust belt inform these poetic oral histories.

Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at how Amiri Baraka’s writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an…

Explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of the Black Arts Movement during the Civil Rights and Black Power era. Analyzes the works of three pioneering dramatists, revealing the roots…

A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue…