Download or read book New and Collected Poems written by Ishmael Reed and published by New York : Atheneum. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reed's poems are conjured from a mix of black speech and music, mythology, voodoo, and pop culture. Ribald, hyperbolic and highly satiric, they have continually lambasted the Judeo-Christian cultural heritage and sought spiritual and intellectual liberation in the black counter-tradition he calls neo-hoodoo. Reed's later collections are less overtly ideological, and alternate anger with an increased tolerance and recognition of ambiguity. ISBN 0-689-12003-6: $22.95.