The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic by William J. Harris
The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic

William J. Harris

The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic

William J. Harris

174 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

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In this study of Baraka's transformation of white avant-grade poetics into a unique black poetics, Harris argues that Baraka's work can be best understood in the context of a jazz aesthetic. Baraka, he says, has taken white avant-garde and postmod...

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