Poetry. African American Studies. "The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA & OTHER POEMS 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."--Kamau Brathwaite.