S O S: Poems 1961-2013 av Amiri Baraka

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<p><strong>One of the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>'s 100 Notable Books</strong></p><p><strong>WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK</strong></p><p>Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume comprises the fullest spectrum of his rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to unpublished pieces composed during his final years.</p><p>Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer in several genres (also published under the name LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. His legacy in world literature is matched by his widespread influence as an activist and cultural leader. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by the Black Arts Moveme