Poetry. African American Studies. Fifth printing. According to Kamau Brathwaite, 'The publication of Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems by Amiri Baraka makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction... Readers of course will want as quick as possible to read for them-self the now controversial title poem..., but check-out, among the others, 'In Town' pure-pure dark post-Plantation molasses...'