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S O S : poems 1961-2013 / Amiri Baraka ; selected by Paul Vangelisti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Grove Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 531 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 080212335X
  • 9780802123350
Other title:
  • S.O.S
  • SOS
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s):
Partial contents:
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note (1961) -- The dead lecturer (1964) -- Black magic (1969) -- Hard facts (1972) -- Poetry for the advanced (1979) -- Reggae or not! (1981) -- Am/trak (1979) -- In the tradition (1982) -- Heathens (1994) -- Wise, why's, Y's (1995) -- Funk lore (1995) -- Fashion this (1996-2013).
Summary: "Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. Selected and prefaced by Paul Vangelisti, S O S is the essential edition of Baraka's poetic work." -- Publisher's description.Summary: Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A New York Times Editors' Choice One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books

Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years.

Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history.

Includes index.

Preface to a twenty volume suicide note (1961) -- The dead lecturer (1964) -- Black magic (1969) -- Hard facts (1972) -- Poetry for the advanced (1979) -- Reggae or not! (1981) -- Am/trak (1979) -- In the tradition (1982) -- Heathens (1994) -- Wise, why's, Y's (1995) -- Funk lore (1995) -- Fashion this (1996-2013).

"Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. Selected and prefaced by Paul Vangelisti, S O S is the essential edition of Baraka's poetic work." -- Publisher's description.

Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" (New York Times)--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years.

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