print email comment close Amiri Baraka URL: http://www.amiribaraka.com/ Description: Official website for Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), "the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist." Features a biography, audio and video clips, essays and poems (including the controversial "Somebody Blew Up America," written about the September 11, 2001, attacks when Baraka was New Jersey's poet laureate), and related links. Author: Baraka, Amiri Extra Keywords black nationalism marxism LII Database Information: Record 24596 created by Jennifer English on 09/25/2007 Last modification on 09/27/2007 Published: 10/04/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24596