Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
by Amiri Baraka
Publication Date: Jan 01, 2009
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 250 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781933354675
Imprint: Akashic Books
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books
Paperback Description:
?Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro?and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights?not conditional favors.”?The New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America’s literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays.
LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 2002?2004. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.
?Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro?and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights?not conditional favors.”?The New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America’s literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays.
LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 2002?2004. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.
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