What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Semitic one of the nation's foremost

one of the nation's foremost public intellectuals

Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" ("New York Times")--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century

why does awareness of race have such a deep

and more are captured in word and line that sing with black rhythms

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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Semitic one of the nation's foremostA Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay