New And Collected Poems 1964 2006

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.