Amiri Baraka
Birthday: 1934-10-07 | Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USAAmiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Awardformerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
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Known For
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press 2008
Release Date:
2008
Rating: 7.2
genres:
Documentary
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place 2007
Release Date:
2007
Rating: 8.7
genres:
Documentary
Return to Gorée
The Pact
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Acting
