{"title":"Ishmael Reed","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"white-teeth-red-blood-selected-vampiric-verses","title":"White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses","description":"\u003cb\u003eSEDUCTIVE, SINISTER, GLAMOROUS, HORRIFIC: this collection brings together the best poems inspired by the undead, from Goethe and Byron to Emily Dickinson and Ishmael Reed\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA nest of vampires literal and metaphorical, this poetry collection ranges across centuries and languages to bring readers a bevy of dark delights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe undead have long provided the perfect vessel for humanity's fears and desires--from spine-tingling chills to sinister sexiness, vampires are the ultimate representation of the most frightening and alluring parts of ourselves. They've inspired poems that tell stories, proffer warnings, and imagine life from inside the eternal night, by authors like J.W. Goethe, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Delmira Agustini, and Ishmael Reed, brought together with many more in this one-of-a-kind collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Claire Kohda, author of \u003ci\u003eWoman, Eating\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContents include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHILLING TALES: poems by Gottfried August Burger, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey, Anne Bannerman (\"The Dark Ladie\"), John Stagg (\"The Vampyre\"), Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rafael Campo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e DIRE WARNINGS: poems by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (\"The Vampire\"), John Keats, Henry Thomas Liddell (\"The Vampire Bride\"), James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Madison Julius Cawein, Rudyard Kipling, Conrad Aiken, Edna St Vincent Millay (\"The Witch-Wife\"), James Weldon Johnson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e THE VAMPIRE WITHIN: poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Emily Brontë (\"Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun\"), Emily Dickinson (\"A Death blow is a Life blow to Some [816]\"), Walter Pater, Delmira Agustini, William Butler Yeats (\"Oil and Blood\"), Ishmael Reed (\"I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra\"), Dorothy Barresi (\"Pocket Vampire\"), John Yau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"1788- George Gordon ByronCharles BaudelaireEmily DickinsonEdna St Vincent MillayIshmael Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793305796650,"sku":"9781805332640","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/white-teeth-red-blood-selected-vampiric-verses-5056419.jpg?v=1762151197"},{"product_id":"new-and-collected-poems-1964-2007","title":"New and Collected Poems 1964-2007","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Notable Book of 2006\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer Ishmael Reed first came to the attention of the literary world as a poet, and despite success as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and recording artist, has never ceased to be a poet. He delves into spiritual and political waters with his own unexpected and uniquely powerful voice.\u003ci\u003e New and Collected Poems, 1966-2006\u003c\/i\u003e captures four decades of Reed's inimitable verse, a visionary journey from Chattanooga to New York, from Africa to Oakland. In language that is pointed, innovative, and profound, Reed weaves politics and war with Yoruba and Jazz, and takes on American culture, from prejudice to Pepsi to George W. Bush. In this important and long-awaited volume -- the first poetry collection from the MacArthur fellow in nearly twenty years -- one of America's most esteemed and intrepid poets, whose \"Beware Do Not Read This Poem\" has been cited by Gale Research as one of about 20 poems most frequently studied in literature courses, shows why Reed has helped define our cultural forefront from the '60s to today.","brand":"Ishmael Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793355079722,"sku":"9781568583419","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/new-and-collected-poems-1964-2007-8325236.jpg?v=1762149938"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/ishmael-reed.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}