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Leroi Jones - (Amiri Baraka)

Leroi Jones - (Amiri Baraka)

    Introduction-
    Leroi Jones was a very interesting man. He had many different views on culture and race. He was a talented man who shared his thoughts, feelings and opinions through his writing. Through this paper I feel that I have brought across the many ways he has touched the minds of people and brought the arts to an (at the time) under privileged minority.
Initial response-
    The poem I choose called the "Incident" gave me a clear image of a man killing another man. Amiri Baraka gave me a vivid mental picture of this event. He expressed all the details about the killer. He gave details about all the situations going on in the poem. I did not find any other literary devises other than imagery. The poem made me feel somewhat empty inside myself. It also made me feel like he was looking over the situation seeing all aspect of what was going on.
    Paraphrase-
    One day a man, for no apparent reason, shot another man. The man fell, tumbling down a flight of stairs, watching his life flash before him. The killer was a genius who knew exactly what he was doing. They probably knew each other.
Report on author's life-
    Amiri Baraka (formally known as Imamu Ameer Baraka and Everett Leroi Jones) was born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the son of Colt Jones, a postal supervisor, and Anna Jones, a social worker (Encarta, p.1). Amiri was an American poet, playwright, and political activist. Whose writing had a major influence in the 1960's, Pushing African American writing away from themes of integration and more toward the "black experience (Ecoy, p.1-2)."
    Amiri earned a scholarship to Rutgers University in 1951 but transferred to Howard University one year later. At Howard University Amiri earned his bachelor's degree in 1954. When he got out of collage, he joined the air force where he served as a gunner for three years. After leaving the army he moved to Greenwich Village, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. While there, he befriended many artists, musicians and writers including Allen Ginsberg (Amazu, p.1217).
    In 1958, Amiri married his first wife, Hettie Cohen, a middle class Jewish woman, and together they co-founded the beat literary magazine Yugen. In 1964, Amiri published his first major play, Dutchman, that opened in New York and won an Obie (an off-Broadway award given by the village voice newspaper) Award. Amiri also founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater in 1964 (Britann

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