The Ishmael Reed Page


( b. 1938 )


Major 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 ). Poems.
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 ).
Airing Dirty Laundry ( 1993 ). Essays.
Japanese by Spring ( 1993 ).
Conversations with Ishmael Reed. Edited by Amritjit Singh and Bruce Dick. Mississippi, 1995.

About Reed
Jay Boyer, Ishmael Reed. Boise State, 1993.
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