Description
Amiri Baraka’s first published poetry collection captures the unsettled consciousness of a young artist confronting alienation, despair, racial identity, and the pressures of convention. Moving between intimate, death-haunted meditations and sharply observed portraits of social and artistic life, these poems explore the uneasy relationship between personal anguish and public responsibility. Written in an emerging open form that resists the polished conventions of its era, the collection reveals the early development of a major and increasingly politically engaged American voice. Together, the poems serve as both a record of the Beat-era psyche and a compelling prelude to the groundbreaking work that would follow.
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First Published
1961
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka.