Title: S O 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volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years.
Subjects: African American men, Poetry, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed, African American poets
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century