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Wise Why's Y's: The Griot's Tale

Wise Why's Y's: The Griot's Tale
By Imamu Amiri Baraka

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A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #8076221 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 128 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
In this collection of poems, famous writer and poet Baraka speaks of oppression, life, death, struggle, and self-determination.
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Review
Wise, Why's, Y's is Amiri Baraka's (who established himself as a major literary figure in the 1960s during the Black Arts Movement) first book of poetry in more than ten years. Written in the spirit of the African Griot, Wise, Why's Y's reclaims, affirms, and comments upon the African American past through poetry. The work is a kind of voyage that charts the ebbs and flows of the African American movements. Written in epic form, Wise, Why's Y's poetically depicts the history of a people and is a landmark in the career of one of the most important African American writers of our time. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Amiri Baraka was a professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook for twenty years. Baraka also writes under the pseudonym of LeRoi Jones.