Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Book

	Preface to the Reader
	Editor's Note
	Introduction
	Chronology
	The Beat Period (1957-1962)	1
	Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note	3
	Hymn for Lanie Poo	4
	In Memory of Radio	10
	Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today	11
	Notes for a Speech	14
	How You Sound??	16
	The Transitional Period (1963-1965)	19
	African Slaves/American Slaves: Their Music	21
	Swing - From Verb to Noun	33
	A contract. (for the destruction and rebuilding of Paterson	51
	An Agony. As Now	52
	A Poem for Willie Best	53
	Short Speech to my Friends	59
	The politics of rich painters	60
	Rhythm & Blues	62
	Crow Jane	66
	For Crow Jane/Mama Death	66
	Crow Jane's Manner	66
	Crow Jane In High Society	67
	Crow Jane The Crook	68
	The dead lady canonized	69
	I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer	69
	Black Dada Nihilismus	71
	Political Poem	73
	The Liar	74
	The Heretics	100
	The Black Nationalist Period (1965-1974)	123
	Cuba Libre	125
	The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation	161
	State/meant	169
	The Screamers	171
	Words	177
	Jazz and the White Critic	179
	The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music)	186
	A Poem Some People will have to Understand	210
	Citizen Cain	211
	Letter to E. Franklin Frazier	212
	Leadbelly Gives an Autograph	213
	Numbers, Letters	214
	Western Front	215
	T. T. Jackson sings	216
	Return of the Native	217
	A Poem for Black Hearts	218
	SOS	218
	Black Art	219
	Poem for HalfWhite College Students	220
	W. W.	221
	Ka 'Ba	221
	The World Is Full of Remarkable Things	222
	Ieroy	223
	Black People!	224
	Great Goodness of Life (1966)	225
	It's Nation Time	240
	The Third World Marxist Period (1974-)	249
	When We'll Worship Jesus	251
	A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!	254
	The Dictatorship of the Proletariat	256
	Das Kapital	258
	A Poem for Deep Thinkers	260
	Pres Spoke in a Language	262
	Dope	263
	Am/Trak	267
	The Revolutionary Tradition in Afro-American Literature	311
	Aime Cesaire	322
	Ngugi wa Thiongo	333
	Error Farce	340
	The Black Arts (Harlem, Politics, Search for a New Life)	367
	Primitive World: An Anti-Nuclear Jazz Musical (play, 1983)	400
	Wise 1	481
	Wise 2	481
	Wise 3	483
	Wise 4	484
	Wise 5	485
	Wise 6	486
	Wise 7	488
	Wise 8	488
	Wise 9	489
	Wise 10	490
	Rough Hand Dreamers (Wise 11)	491
	A farmer come to the city (Wise 12)	491
	Wise 13	492
	The Black Arts Movement (essay, 1994)	495
	Malcolm As Ideology (1995)	506
	Robert Williams: An Introduction (unpublished)	521
	Sweet Lorraine (essay, unpublished, performed as a tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, 1996)	525
	Portrait of the Lion: Willie "The Lion" Smith, A Script for the New-Arkestra (musical drama, performed 1997-1998 at NJPAC & NYU)	528
	Black Reconstruction: Du Bois and the U.S. Struggle for Democracy and Socialism (1998)	545
	Allah Mean Everything! Pt One (poem, unpublished 1998)	560
	Margaret Walker (essay, 1999)	563
	Understanding Readiness (1999)	566
	Sassy Was Definitely Not the Avon Lady (narrative, performed at Sassy Tribute, March 1999 NJPAC, published in Digging, 1999)	567
	Mumia, "Lynch Law" and Imperialism (1999)	570
	The Great Max Roach (1999)	575
	My Man Came by the Crib the Other Day ... (short story, 1999)	577
	Select Bibliography	583
	About the Editor	587