The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990

J. J. Phillips, Ishmael Reed, Shawn Wong, Gundars Strads

ISBN 10: 0393030563 / ISBN 13: 9780393030563

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 1992

About this Item

This landmark volume collects a decade's worth of work from the American Book Awards, and in the process redefines our sense of what constitutes the "mainstream" of American poetry. Includes the work of more than 50 poets on a wide range of themes, diction and geographical origins. Reed's fiction draws upon myth, magic, and ritual to produce a literature that attempts to be larger than life. He has been called an ironist, whose explorations of United States history in general and African American history in particular reveal deep scars in the culture that no amount of technology can heal. Reed tries to incorporate multimedia and nonlinear techniques into his writing style. First printing, like new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393030563
• ISBN 13: 9780393030563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: As new
• Dust Jacket Condition: As new
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Collects the poetry from the last decade of American Book Awards that best reflects the multicultural interests and accomplishments in American literature

About the Author

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books―including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or “Neo-Hoodooism” as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. In 2003, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater.