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Ishmael Reed

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[]

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