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First printing. Edited by poet and translator Paul Vangelisti, this is a collection of poems covering Baraka's more than 30-year career. Many of the poems in this collection were only published in limited numbers in small chapbooks, others have been out of print for a long time. Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer, supporter of the arts and political activist, Baraka may be "one of the most significant, and least understood, poets of [the twentieth] century." This collection includes works "from every period of [his] extraordinarily innovative, often controversial struggle as a serious and ideologically committed American artist - from Beat to Black Nationalist to Marxist-Leninist. This volume reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge; a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time." Foreword by Vangelisti. Select biblography. xx, 271 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover edition. .ISBN # 1-56886-0137 

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