SOURCE: "Die Schwartze Bohemien: 'The Terrible Disorder of a Young Man,'" in To Raise, Destroy, and Create: The Poetry, Drama, and Fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones), The Whitston Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 27-39.
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