From Totems to Hip-Hop II

Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-with the assistance of Carla Blank-has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience.Pow-Wowis the sequel to Reed'sFrom Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900 2002, a volume that included both Tupac Shakur and T. S. Eliot, and was named one of the best poetry anthologies of 2003 byLibrary Journal. Its fiction-focused follow-up once again demonstrates the broad range of American writing, from such stellar names as Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Alejandro MurguÍa to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds.This landmark collection features: Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and more.Reed, Ishmael is the author of 'From Totems to Hip-Hop II', published 2009 under ISBN 9781568583426 and ISBN 1568583427.