Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: poetry, across, americas, anthology, multicultural, hip, hop, totems
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2002-12-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1560254580
ISBN-13: 9781560254584

Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop—a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology—a literary event which will finally even the playing field. This important collection synthesizes and presents broad swaths of work from poets of all races and backgrounds, as only Reed can, ranging from Gertrude Stein to Ai, from Bessie Smith to Askia Toure, from W. C. Handy to the little-known poetry of Ernest Hemingway. Through his unique position in American letters, as writer, teacher, and even publishe

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: pallbearers, freelance
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 1999-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782255
ISBN-13: 9781564782250

Ishmael Reed’s electrifying first novel zooms readers off to a land they have never heard of, a crazy, ominous kingdom called HARRY SAM--a never-never land so weirdly out-of-whack that only reality itself could be stranger. Venturing into this risky realm of a thousand contradictions is the quixotic Bukka Doopeyduk, a crusading, liberal fellow who is eager--if not always ready--to face the dangers of life. And dangers abound. Jousting and colliding with a macabre carousel of cops and beatniks, Elks and Black Muslims, he suffers a series of cockeyed misfortunes--maddening, saddening, and

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: canada, flight
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-06-02
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684847507
ISBN-13: 9780684847504

Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twin", (SATURDAY REVIEW), this slave’s-eye view of the Civil War exposes America’s racial foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and panache. "A book that reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with comic rage".--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: eyeballing, reckless
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2000-10
List price: $11.50
ISBN-10: 1564782379
ISBN-13: 9781564782373

It’s the 1980s and the politics of the New York theater scene have taken yet another turn. Masochism is out and feminism is in, Jews are out and Germans are in, race is out and gender is in, and everyone’s fighting (and rewriting) for a piece of the pie. Jewish director Jim Minsk disappears during a trip to the South. Black playwright Ian Ball writes the all-female play RECKLESS EYEBALLING in hopes of getting off the "sex-list." Preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, claiming the Jews stole all his black material, decides to write about Armenians. In the background, an unknown assai

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: jumbo, mumbo
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-06-11
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684824779
ISBN-13: 9780684824772

A preeminent African-American novelist, essayist, and activist takes an unorthodox look at black and white relations throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: broke, radio, yellow
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 2000-07
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782387
ISBN-13: 9781564782380

"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner’s swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of MUMBO JUMBO and one of America’s most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary A

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: threes, terrible
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1999-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782247
ISBN-13: 9781564782243

In The Terrible Threes, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature. This adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry. This novel begins where The Terrible Twos left off, in the late 1990s, three years after President and former fashion model Dean Clift was laughed out of office, with the nation in chaos and the White House implicated in a covert operation to rid America of surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapo