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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader san francisco thunder For eleven years the clockAmiri Baraka dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer is one of the preeminent African American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction.