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Dumas' poetry, short fiction, and novels have been published posthumously in large part due to the efforts of Eugene Redmond, Toni Morrison, and Quincy Troupe. Poetry for My People first appeared in 1970 and was later published as Play Ebony, Play Ivory. When Play Ebony, Play Ivory appeared in 1974, Julius Lester in the New York Times Book Review called Dumas "the most original Afro-American poet of the sixties." Dumas' first collection of short fiction, "Arks of Bones" and Other Stories, was first published in 1974. Redmond has also helped to bring out an unfinished novel, Jonah and the Green Stone (1976), as well as the collections Rope of Wind and Other Stories (1979), Goodbye, Sweetwater (1988), and Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas (1989). Authors including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maya Angelou have celebrated his writing for its mixture of natural and supernatural phenomena, music, beauty, and revolutionary politics.]]> male 70033 1566891493 9781566891493 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170716178m/70033.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170716178s/70033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70033.Echo_Tree_The_Collected_Short_Fiction_of_Henry_Dumas 4.15 13 Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed with only their wit, their words, and their wisdom. With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political development of African American culture by interweaving elements of Christian metaphor, African tradition, southern folklore, American music and America’s history of slavery and endemic racism. For the first time, all of Dumas's short fiction is collected here, including several previously unpublished stories.

]]> 39426 4.41 44 3 2003 83574 093841058X 9780938410584 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647409m/83574.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647409s/83574.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83574.Goodbye_Sweetwater_New_Selected_Stories 4.33 12 39426 4.41 44 3 1988 792509 0938410741 9780938410744 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792509.The_Knees_of_a_Natural_Man 4.60 5 39426 4.41 44 3 1989 1748550 0394489713 9780394489711 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1748550.Ark_of_bones_and_other_stories 5.00 3 39426 4.41 44 3 1971 792510 0394709489 9780394709482 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792510.Play_ebony_play_ivory 4.75 4 39426 4.41 44 3 1974 792511 0394505298 9780394505299 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792511.Rope_of_wind_and_other_stories 5.00 2 39426 4.41 44 3 1979 778423 0394497910 9780394497914 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/778423.Jonoah_The_Green_Stone 4.00 2 39426 4.41 44 3 1976 577085 0809304430 9780809304431 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/577085.Poetry_for_my_people 5.00 1 at the age of thirty-four. These two volumes (Ark of Bones and Other Stories and Poetry for my
People), comprise most of his work, published and unpublished. They amply show the sensitivity and skill with which he approached the themes of blackness and youth, the preoccupations of the stories, and, in the themes and techniques of the poems, demonstrate the awareness of what an African heritage can mean to an American writer.
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