ISBN: 9781400054145

Poet and novelist Ismael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. After attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, he moved to New York City,… mais…

Poet and novelist Ismael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. After attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, he moved to New York City, where he became a co-founder of the East Village Other, a journal of experimental writing. From New York, he moved to Berkeley, California, and started the Yardbird Publishing Company. 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. He has defended his eclectic techniques with spirit, however: Many people call my fiction muddled, crazy, incoherent because I've attempted in fiction the techniques and forms painters, dancers, film makers, musicians in the West have taken for granted for at least fifty years, and the artists of many other cultures, for thousands of years. Ishmael Reed, Books, Biography and Memoir, Bigger Than Boxing: Muhammad Ali Books>Biography and Memoir <

ISBN: 1400054141