
Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist and novelist. He was born on the 22nd of February 1938.
Selected works[]
- The Freelance Pallbearers (1967)
- ''Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969)
- Mumbo Jumbo (1972)
- Neo-HooDoo Manifesto (1972)
- Conjure: Selected Poems 1963-1970 (1972)
- Chattanooga: Poems (1973)
- The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974)
- Flight to Canada (1976)
- Secretary to the Spirits (1978)
- Shrovetide in Old New Orleans: Essays (1978)
- The Terrible Twos (1982)
- God Made Alaska for the Indians: Selected Essays (1982)
- Reckless Eyeballing (1986)
- New and Collected Poetry,1988)
- Writing is Fighting: Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper (1988)
- The Terrible Threes (1989)
- Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990
- Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1990)
- Airing Dirty Laundry (1993)
- Japanese by Spring (1993)
- Conversations with Ishmael Reed, ed. Amritjit Singh and Bruce Dick (1995)
- Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (2003)
References[]
- Konch Magazine, an Ishmael Reed publication
- Wikipedia's article on Ishmael Reed
- Ishmael Reed Biography on Professor Scott W. Williams's site (math at SUNY@Buffalo)