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Wise Why's Y's: The Griot's Tale

by Amiri Baraka
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Synopsis

A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

Library Journal

In this collection of poems, famous writer and poet Baraka speaks of oppression, life, death, struggle, and self-determination.

About the Author, Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka was a professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook for twenty years. Baraka also writes under the pseudonym of LeRoi Jones.

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 1995
Publisher
Third World Press
Pages
132
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780883780473

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Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
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Tales of the Out & the Gone
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Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
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Jubilee: The Emergence of African - American Culture
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The Big Sea
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The autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
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Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems
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Un Poco Low Coup
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Sidney Poet Heroical
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