Description
A fierce and searching collection of poems, this landmark work captures an artist confronting alienation, artistic identity, racial injustice, and the turbulent pressures of American life. Moving through urban landscapes, jazz-inflected rhythms, intimate encounters, and political unrest, the poems explore the collapse of inherited assumptions and the possibility of renewal through resistance and solidarity. Both personal and historical, the book reflects the tensions of the civil rights era while refusing easy answers or fixed categories. Its charged language, experimental energy, and uncompromising intelligence establish it as a pivotal work in modern African American poetry.
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Details
First Published
1964
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Dead Lecturer by Amiri Baraka.