Tales: Short Stories

"A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation" (Kirkus Reviews).

"Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement's expression of the 'Black Aesthetic,' which took hold of the African American cultural imagination in earnest in the late sixties. While known primarily for his plays, poems, and criticism of black music, Baraka was als...