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Born in 1938 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Catechism of d Neoamerican Hoodoo Church, Paul Breman (London, England), 1970, Broadside Press (Highland Park, MI), 1971.
  • Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963-1970, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1972.
  • Chattanooga: Poems, Random House (New York, NY), 1973.
  • A Secretary to the Spirits, illustrations by Betye Saar, NOK Publishers (New York, NY), 1978.
  • New and Collected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1989.
  • New and Collected Poems: 1964-2006, Carroll and Graff (New York, NY), 2006.
  • New and Collected Poems: 1964-2007, Thunder’s Mouth (New York, NY), 2007.

FICTION

  • The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967.
  • Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Doubleday, 1969.
  • Mumbo Jumbo, Doubleday, 1972.
  • The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Random House (New York, NY), 1974.
  • Flight to Canada, Random House, 1976.
  • The Terrible Twos, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY), 1982.
  • Reckless Eyeballing, St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
  • The Terrible Threes, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1989.
  • Japanese by Spring, Atheneum, 1993.
  • Juice!, Dalkey Archive Press (Champaign, IL), 2011.

NONFICTION

  • Shrovetide in Old New Orleans(essays), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1978.
  • God Made Alaska for the Indians: Selected Essays, Garland (New York, NY), 1982.
  • Writin’ Is Fightin’: Thirty-seven Years of Boxing on Paper, Atheneum, 1988, revised and expanded edition published as Writing Is Fighting: Forty-three Years of Boxing on Paper, Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA), 1998.
  • Airing Dirty Laundry, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
  • The Reed Reader, Basic Books (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War, Basic Books, 2002.
  • Blues City: A Walk in Oakland, Crown (New York, NY), 2003.
  • Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media and Other Reflections, Da Capo Press (New York, NY), 2008.
  • Barack Obama and The Media Bullies, or The Return of the “Nigger Breakers,” Baraka Books (Montreal, Canada), 2010.
  • The Fighter and the Writer: Two American Stories, Random House, 2012.
 
PLAYS
  • Hell Hath No Fury... ,produced by the Playwrights and Directors Project of the Actors Studio in New York, NY, June, 1980.
  • Savage Wilds,produced at the Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA, January, 1988.
  • Hubba City,produced at the Black Repertory Theatre, 1988.
  • The Preacher and the Rapper, produced in New York, NY, 1994.
  • Ishmael Reed: The Plays, Dalkey Archive Press (Champaign, IL), 2009.
 
 
EDITOR
  • (As Emmett Coleman) The Rise, Fall, and... ? of Adam Clayton Powell,Beeline (Albany, NY), 1967.
  • (Also author of introduction, and contributor) 19 Necromancers from Now,Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1970.
  • (With Al Young) Yardbird Lives!,Grove (New York, NY), 1978.
  • (And contributor) Calafia: The California Poetry,Yardbird Books (Berkeley, CA), 1979.
  • (With Kathryn Trueblood and Shawn Wong) The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990,Norton (New York, NY), 1992.
  • MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace,Viking (New York, NY), 1997.
  • From Totems to Hip-Hop (collected poetry), Thunder Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2003.
(With Carla Blank) POWWOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience—Short Fiction from Then to Now, Da Capo Press, 2009.Contributor to numerous volumes, including Amistad I: Writings on Black History[HB1]  and Culture, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1970; The Black Aesthetic, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971; Nommo: An Anthology of Modern Black African and Black American Literature, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1972; Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the ‘70s, Holt (New York, NY), 1973; Superfiction; or, The American Story Transformed: An Anthology, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1975; and American Poets in 1976, Bobbs-Merrill (New York, NY), 1976. Poetry also represented in anthologies, including Where Is Vietnam? American Poets Respond: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems, Doubleday, 1967; The New Black Poetry, International Publishers (New York, NY), 1969; The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Norton (New York, NY), 1970; The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1970; Afro-American Literature: An Introduction, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1971; The Writing on the Wall: 108 American Poems of Protest, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971; Major Black Writers, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1971; The Black Poets, Bantam (New York, NY), 1971; The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century, Harper (New York, NY), 1972; and Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings, Random House (New York, NY), 1975. Also author of The Lost State of Franklin with Carla Blank and Suzushi Hanayagi, 1976.
 
OTHER
  • Ishmael Reed Reading His Poetry(cassette), Temple of Zeus, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1976.
  • Ishmael Reed and Michael Harper Reading in the UCSD New Poetry Series(reel), University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA), 1977.
  • (With Al Young) Personal Problems(video script), 1980.
  • (Author of introduction) Elizabeth A. Settle and Thomas A. Settle, Ishmael Reed: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography,G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1982.
  • Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon,Bamberger (Flint, MI), 1986.
  • (With Richard Nagler) Oakland Rhapsody: The Secret Soul of an American Downtown,North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, CA), 1995.
  • Conversations with Ishmael Reed,edited by Bruce Dick and Amritjit Singh, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1995.
  • The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress, Ishmael Reed(cassette), Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1996.
  • Ishmael Reed and Garrett Hongo Reading Their Poems in the Mumfoud Room (cassette), Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1996.

Also author, with wife, Carla Blank, and Suzushi Hanayagi, of a bicentennial mystery play, The Lost State of Franklin. Author of foreword, Dark Eros, edited by Reginald Martin, St. Martin’s Press (New York, NY), 1997. Contributor of fiction to such periodicals as Fiction, Iowa Review, Nimrod, Players, Ramparts, Seattle Review, andSpokane Natural; contributor of articles and reviews to numerous periodicals, including Black World, Confrontation, Essence, Le Monde, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Playgirl, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Washington Post, and Yale Review; and contributor of poetry to periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Black Scholar, Black World, Essence, Liberator, Negro Digest, Noose, San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, Life, Connoisseur, and Umbra. Cofounder of periodicals East Village Other and Advance (Newark community newspaper), both 1965. Editor of Yardbird Reader, 1972-76; editor-in-chief, Y’Bird magazine, 1978-80; and coeditor of Quilt magazine, 1981.