The Dead Lecturer
Author | : Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : New York : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
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Author | : Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : New York : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
Author | : Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : New York : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
Author | : Randy Pausch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cancer |
ISBN | : 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author | : Imamu Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780394172477 |
Author | : James Hynes |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142997575X |
The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe Nelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power--he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And so he obtains an extension on the lease of his university-owned townhouse and picks up two sections of freshman composition, saving his career from utter ruin. But soon these victories seem inconsequential, and Nelson's finger burns for even greater glory. Now the Midas of academia wonders if he can attain what every struggling assistant professor and visiting lecturer covets--tenure. A pitch-perfect blend of satire and horror, The Lecturer's Tale paints a gruesomely clever portrait of life in academia.
Author | : Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0802191584 |
“S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review
Author | : Amiri Baraka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781568860145 |
Poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer and political activist, Amiri Baraka is considered by many to be the most influential and preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. Transbluesency reveals a writer shaping a body of poetry that is as well a body of knowledge--a passionate reflection upon the cultural, political, and aesthetic questions of his time.