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Ishmael Reed may be best known as a satirical novelist, but he also gained a reputation as a respected poet, essayist, and editor. His poetry collections, which include Catechism of D Neoamerican Hoodoo Church (1970), Conjure: Selected Poems 1963-1970 (1972), Chattanooga (1973), A Secretary to the Spirits (1977), and New and Collected Poems (1988), established him as a major African American poet, and his poetry has been included in several important anthologies. In well- received collections of essays, including...
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