The only hit on amazon for "twenty volume suicide note" is a book by Le Roi Jones bearing the title you give, and the only hit on Knox's library search engine is a book by the author you give, Imamu Amiri Baraka, same title, same publisher, same year. Care to fill in the uninformed? :-)
Also, I found this New York Review of Books piece, which makes it seem like LeRoi Jones is a pretty interesting poet:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/11816
Posted by Chris at June 22, 2003 10:47 PMOh, same person it seems. Sorry. :-)
Posted by Chris at June 22, 2003 10:50 PMYeah, same person, and a good poet by any name. But he gave up the name Le Roi Jones as Muhammad Ali gave up the name Cassius Clay, and I respect both choices. Don't apologize; it's a perfectly reasonable question!
Posted by language hat at June 22, 2003 11:35 PMhttp://www.olimu.com/WebJournalism/Texts/Commentary/OwlExploding.htm
Posted by Ilya Vinarsky at June 27, 2003 06:42 PMYes, the man has written some incredibly dumb things. He's still a good poet. Go figure.
Posted by language hat at June 27, 2003 09:12 PMUh, whicha way to Japan?
Posted by James Garside at April 16, 2005 12:49 PM