Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression. Reed has been described as one of the most controversial writers. While his work has often sought to represent neglected African and African-American perspectives, his energy and advocacy have centered more broadly on neglected peoples and perspectives irrespective of their cultural origins.
Books
Going Too Far
Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown
2012
The Terrible Threes
1989
The Slave Who Loved Caviar
2023
Neo-Hoodoo Manifesto
1970
Mumbo Jumbo
1972
Airing Dirty Laundry
1993
Writin' Is Fightin'
Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper
1988
Malcolm and Me
2020
Life Among the Aryans
2022
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
1967
Conjugating Hindi
2018
Pow-Wow
Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
2008
Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970.
1972
The Terrible Twos
1988
White Teeth, Red Blood
Selected Vampiric Verses
2025
Shrovetide in Old New Orleans
1978
The Complete Muhammad Ali
2015
Another Day At The Front
Dispatches From The Race War
2002
The Fool Who Thought Too Much
2020
The Man Who Haunted Himself
2023
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006
1988
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
2020
Blues City
A Walk in Oakland
2003
Japanese by Spring
1993
The Reed Reader
2000
Flight to Canada
1976
Mixing It Up
Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
2008
Reckless Eyeballing
1986
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (American Literature
1969
Juice!
2011
The Last Days of Louisiana Red
1974
Bigotry on Broadway
2021
