S O S

“ 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