Amiri Baraka
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- October 7, 1934
- Died
- 2014
- Works
- 260
Top works
- Great goodness of life
- William Carlos Williams
- Spring & soforth
- Barakario
- RWH on the Black liberation movement
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Film & TV
Writing · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Amiri 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…
Known for
- castelporziano ostia dei poeti — Self - poet2025
- Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri — Self2024
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder — Self2009
- Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press — Self2008
- New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture — Himself2008
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place2007
- Return to Gorée — Self2007
- Turn Me On — Self2007
- The Pact — Self2006
- Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow — Self2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,160
- Total plays
- 27,745
Tags
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Amiri Baraka is an influential American poet, dramatist and music critic. Known for his outspoken political activism, he may be best remembered for his controversial tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Important writings include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963), which remains one of the most influential volumes of jazz criticism. Baraka's website is http://www.amiribaraka.com/. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Amiri+Bara
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,671x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,008x
- Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2023 · cited 3,699x
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,282x
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Key dates
- Born
- 7 October 1934
- Died
- 9 January 2014
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newark
- Place of death
- Newark
- Occupation
- activist
- Employer
- San Francisco State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Islam
- Field of work
- music criticism
Connections
Categories
1934 births2014 deaths20th-century American dramatists and playwrights20th-century American essayists20th-century American poets20th-century American short story writers21st-century American poets9/11 conspiracy theoristsAfrican-American communistsAfrican-American dramatists and playwrightsAfrican American–Jewish relationsAfrican-American poets