The content/themes of Amiri Baraka's writing are about many controversial subjects in his time. Some of his writings are about the social development and political development of African American music. Some of his writings became politically committed and socially committed after the assassination of Malcolm X. Other subjects of his writings include black pride and black experience such as the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights Movement.
Amiri Baraka has a unique style of writing. His writings are usually written with violent imagery and/or fragmentary. Violent imagery portrays violent behavior or fosters and encourages violent behavior in a vivid manner. Fragmentary portrays things in bits and parts. With his style of writing, he was able to establish a connection between African American language forms and literature.
Amiri Baraka's work had a great reputation in society. It influenced an entire generation of black writers. He was able to do this by providing a basis for the start of a black literature. In one of his popular pieces of writings is Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), he dedicated several of the poems to the poets that he learned from or was influenced by. The two that had lasting influence on Baraka was Allen Ginsberg and Frank O"Hara. Another one of his popular writings includes Blues People (1963), which traced the social and political development of African American music.
Some of his famous pieces of writing include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and Blues People (1963). These two pieces of writing traced the social and political developments of African American music. His other piece of writing, The Dead Lecturer (1964), provides a record of him in torment and transformation. He also has written other pieces of writing, which includes Dutchman and The Slave (1964). In these two pieces, he combined the nonrealistic staging of the early 1960s experimentalist theater with militant.