Baraka, Imamu Amiri

A selection of poems drawn from throughout the twentieth-century American poet's thirty-year career.

Contains twenty-five short fiction stories by Amiri Baraka written since the 1970s.

A collection of critical essays on jazz that examine the creative process, the impact the jazz culture had on African-American artists and musicians, and the careers of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and other jazz musicians of the 1960s.