The Dead Lecturer
by Le Roi Jones
Published by Grove Press, USA, 1964. Softcover. priced $1.45 on front and rear covers. 79pp. Minor wear to covers, faint water mark near spine, totally clean interior- Near Fine.
from Britannica: The Dead Lecturer, collection of verse by Amiri Baraka, published in 1964 under the name LeRoi Jones. The collection marked a separation for Baraka from the style and literary philosophy of the Beats, with whom he had previously been associated. In the poem “Rhythm & Blues” he used the structures of jazz and blues to forge a new, distinctly African American voice. Poems such as “Black Dada Nihilismus” and “An Agony. As Now.” reveal the anger and despair of a black man trapped in a white middle-class society. Despite the inaccessibility of some of the poems, the collection is notable for its strong imagery and lyrical treatment of violence.
