Arkansippi Memwars - by Eugene B Redmond (Paperback)

About the Book

"Celebrating a career that spans five decades, Eugene B. Redmond's collected work, Arkansippi Memwars, is a triumph. His body of work presents the veracity and audacity of the Black Arts Movement, the traditions of the Yoruba, and the complex history of the Black American. Redmond's poetry moves to the cadence of drums stripped from his ancestors and reclaimed by the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and the burgeoning Hip-Hop movement of the 1980s. Fearless, sharp, and satirically masterful are but a few words to describe the excellence of Eugene Redmond and his poetry."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Synopsis

This moving and complex volume of poetry, Arkansippi Memwars: Poetry, Prose and Chants, is the collected work of Eugene B. Redmond, poet, educator, community activist. Redmond is the Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois.

About the Author

Eugene B. Redmond is the Poet Laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois, Emeritus Professor of English, Founding Editor of Drumvoices Revue and former Chairman of the Creative Writing Committee at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Redmond has authored or edited more than 25 volumes of poetry, collections of diverse writings, and plays for stage and TV. In his capacity as the Henry Dumas Literary Executor, he has edited several collections of the late writer's works. Redmond is the recipient of many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Pan-African Movement USA, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, an American Book Award for The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems (1993) and most recently a second American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (2012).