Books

Biographies · scholarship · Sun Ra's own writings · visual art books

6 titles

CORE BIOGRAPHIES

Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

John F. Szwed

1997 · Duke University Press

Biography

CONTEXTUAL · URBAN STUDIES

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

Paul Youngquist

2016 · University of Texas Press

Study

Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City

William Sites

2020 · University of Chicago Press

Study

SUN RA'S WRITINGS

The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose of Sun Ra

Sun Ra (eds. Hartmut Geerken & Chris Trent)

2005 · Waitawhile

Ra's Writings

VISUAL & ART BOOKS

Sun Ra: Art on Saturn

Irwin Chusid & Chris Reisman

2022 · Fantagraphics Books

Visual & Art

DISCOGRAPHIES & REFERENCE

Omniverse Sun Ra (3rd Revised Edition)

Hartmut Geerken & Chris Trent

2026 · Art Yard

reference