"Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is perhaps the preeminent African-American literary figure of our time. Yet, until now, it has been impossible to find the full range of his work represented in one volume."--BOOK JACKET. "The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning more than thirty years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career in which he has produced numerous books of poetry, plays, collections of essays and speeches, and books of fiction. This essential anthology and expanded edition also contains new and unpublished work - including essays on Malcolm X, Mumia Abu Jamal, Sarah Vaughn, and Max Roach - as well as an up-to-date chronology and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.