Amiri Baraka, Controversial Poet and Playwright, Dead at 79 by Robert Simonson

Amiri Baraka, who both depicted and embodied the African-American experience, and frequently courted controversy through his poetry, fiction, essays and plays, died Jan. 9 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ. He had been checked into the hospital's intensive care unit one month ago. He was 79.

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