Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters

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Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature

From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (1929-1999), two self-consciously avant-garde poets, fostered an intense friendship primarily through correspondence. The early 1960s found both poets just beginning to publish and becoming public figures. Bonding around their commitment to new and radical forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826366341
• ISBN13: 9780826366344
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 248 Pages