Tales of the Out & the Gone

by Amiri Baraka and LeRoi. Jones

Book Overview

"Baraka is a poet down to his bones . . . The stories] evoke a mood of revolutionary disorder, conjuring an alternative universe in which a dangerous African-American underground, or a dangerous literary underground--hell, any kind of an underground--still exists . . . In his prose as in his poetry, Baraka is at his best a lyrical prophet of despair who transfigures his contentious racial and political views into a transcendent, 'outtelligent'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933354127
• ISBN13: 9781933354125
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"