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Books by Eugene Redmond
Sides of the River (1969)
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Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970) /
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971) /
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972)
In
a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) /
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) /
Drumvoices
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Images & Homages:
‘Memwars’
From the Eugene B.
Redmond Collection
Edited
by Howard Rambsy II
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“Listen closely to horn
licks on James Brown’s “Cold Sweat,” [and]
you’ll hear the spirit of Miles Davis.
daah-da! ... Alfred Ellis on sax invoking,
or better yet, invocating that famous “so
what” phrasing from . . . Davis’ Kind of
Blue album. For now, think of the Eugene
B.Redmond Collection [as] a ritual of
rhythmic invocations full of spirits past
and present. Redmond has taken more than one
hundred thousand photographs and collected
an equivalent number of cultural artifacts
such as volumes of poetry, posters, statues,
rare albums, and paintings. … What
distinguishes this collection is rhythm and
movement, the refusal of his images to sit
still. … [A] sustained commitment to
charting the activities of artists,
intellectuals, and activists constitutes the
other defining feature, and [is Redmond’s]
lifelong work. |
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Here is a poet and cultural
historian [dedicated] to documenting the rhythms of
artistic production and activism.
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Images & Homages
gives us a glimpse at Redmond’s ongoing
efforts to lyrically and visually transcribe
the sagas of drumvoices.” Containing 80
pages of stunning photos, visual
memorabilia, poetic (“kwansaba”) sketches,
and captions, this book photos of Maya
Angelou, Jabari Asim, James Baldwin, Amiri
Baraka, Harry Belafonte, Avery Brooks,
Stokley Carmichael, Marie A. Celestin,
Natalie Cole, Jayne Cortez, Roscoe
Crenshaw, Stanley Crouch, Harold Cruse,
Edwidge Danticat, Miles Davis, Ossie Davis,
Leon Damas (with Bernice Reagon), Henry
Dumas, Katherine Dunham, Ralph Ellison (with
Leon Forrest), Mari Evans (with Gwendolyn
Brooks), Sherman L. Fowler, Nikki Giovanni,
Danny Glover (with Toni Morrison & Susan
Taylor), Herbie Hancock, Eugene Haynes,
Calvin Hernton, John Lee Hooker . . . |
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Hudlin Brothers, Ahmad
Jamal, Percy James, Maulana Ron Karenga,
Spike Lee, Shirley LeFlore, Charlois
Lumpkin, K. Curtis Lyle, Haki Madhubuti
(with William Keorapetse Kgositsile & Alice
Walker), Jose Montoya, Queen Mother Moore,
Walter Mosley, Odetta, Euzhan Palcy, Gordon
Parks, Darlene Roy, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby
Seale, Ousmene Sembene, Betty Shabazz (with
Angela Davis), Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone,
Clark Terry, Askia Muhammad Toure, Clyde
Taylor, Eleanor Traylor, Quincy Troupe, Evon
Udoh, August Wilson, Oprah Winfrey (with
Coretta Scott King), & scores of others . .
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To obtain your copy of
Images & Homages
(ISBN 978-1-880748-63-3)
please fill out the form below and send
check or money order for $15.00 (plus $2
shipping and handling) per book to Editor,
Drumvoices Revue, Department of English, Box
1431, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431.
Tel: (618) 650-3991 E-mail:
eredmon@siue.edu. |
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Images & Homages (ISBN
1-880748-61-9) is part of the Drumvoices Revue
Supplement Series of catalogs, monographs, chapbooks,
pamphlets, and special-focus projects published since
1991 by the English Department of SIUE and the Eugene B.
Redmond Writers Club (P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL
62201).
Telephone: 618 650-3991; Fax: 618
650-3509; Email:
eredmon@siue.edu; Website:
www.siue/ENGLISH/dvr/.
Kwansabas for Maya Angelou
& Quincy Troupe’. Plus . . . Interviews with Angelou,
Troupe & Michael Datcher
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posted 27 January 2008 |
