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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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Overview
Dr. Eugene B. Redmond, who worked closely with
the late Katherine
Dunham as one of architects of the Midwest
Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, is a poet, scholar,
critic, photographer and author/editor of dozens of
books including “Eighty
Moods of Maya & Other Photo-Poetic Moments,”
“Drumvoices Revue: The Richard Wright Centennial Issue,”
“The Eye in the Ceiling” (winner of an American Book
Award), “Images
& Homages,” and seven collections of prose/poetry by
the late Henry Dumas, for whose estate he has served as
Literary Executor since 1968.
Emeritus professor
of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
Dr. Redmond has been Writer-in-Residence at Oberlin
College, California State University-Sacramento,
Southern University-Baton Rouge, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Wayne State University, University of
Ibadan-Nigeria, and University of Missouri-St. Louis.
His awards include a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small
Presses, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative
Writing Fellowship, a Tribute to an Elder Award (Afrikan
Poetry Theater), induction into the International Hall
of Fame for Writers of African Descent, and an honorary
doctorate of humane letters from SIUE.
Exhibits of his photos
have been held in Africa and across the U.S. at James
Madison University, SIUE, Missouri History Museum-St. Louis,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, East St. Louis
Municipal Building, University of Kansas-Lawrence, and
University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. In 1995, with fellow
members of the East St. Louis-based Eugene B. Redmond
Writers Club, he invented the “kwansaba,” a 49-word poem.
Eugene B. Redmond, poet, essayist and playwright,
was professor of
English and Poet-in-Residence at California State University,
Sacramento. He has taught at several United States colleges and
universities, including Southern Illinois University, where he was a
colleague of Henry Dumas. Redmond's books of poetry are
Sides of the River (1969,)
Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970),
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971),
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972), Consider Loneliness As These Things, and
In
a Time of Rain & Desire 1973); his LP recording of poetry, Bloodlinks
and Sacred Places, was released by Black River Writers in 1973. He
edited
Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A
Critical History (1976) and
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003)
During the sixties, Redmond edited Midwestern community newspapers
and served for two years as senior consultant to Katherine Dunham at the
Performing Arts Training Center in East St. Louis. His writings have
appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Black
World, Journal of Black Poetry, The Black Scholar, Open
Poetry, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Black Orpheus, American
Dialog, Discourses on Poetry and The New Black Poetry.
He taught at the Experiment in Higher Education (Southern
Illinois University-East St. Louis) where his colleagues
included Henry Dumas, Joyce
Ladner, and Katherine Dunham. He has authored six volumes of
poetry and has edited many more.
A national and international lecturer, Redmond reaches worldwide
audiences with his multicultural messages. In 1999, Redmond
joined Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Lerone
Bennett Jr., August Wilson, and Henry Dumas as an inductee into
the National Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent.
Update
The EBR Digital Collection
9 December 2011
One the latest developments
with the Eugene B. Redmond (EBR) Collection has been the launch of
the
EBR African American Cultural Life Digital Collection, an online
site run by SIUE’s Lovejoy Library that features photographs and
posters from Redmond’s extensive collection. So far, the site has
more than 250 items, with more to come.
The EBR Digital Collection
Utilizing the EBR Digital Collection (H. Rambsy
II)
Redmond, Dunham & the EBR Digital Collection
(Cindy Lyles)
Metro East & the EBR Digital Collection (Clarissa
Richee)
Ntozake Shange & the EBR Digital Collection
(Danielle Hall)
Background on Eugene B. Redmond's Extensive Photographic Work
(H. Rambsy II)
Communal Inspirations & the EBR Digital Collection
(Clarissa Richee)
Katherine Dunham, Redmond & the EBR Digital Collection
(Danielle Hall)
Poster for A 1974 Poetry Festival (H. Rambsy II)
Divas of the 20th Century Awards Ceremony
(Danielle Hall)
Eugene B. Redmond: A Human Vertex (Cindy Lyles)
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Eugene Redmond is Back in Ibadan, Nigeria
Eugene B. Redmond,
professor of English Literature at Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville, United States of America, is in the country again
two years after his last visit.
A major voice in the
enduring tradition of African American Literature, Redmond is
Poet Laureate of East St. Louis and is the founding editor of DrumVoices Revue, a multicultural literary magazine. With
Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka and others, he has served as editor
and executor of seven collections of Henry Dumas' poetry and
prose.
Redmond, whose first
visit to Nigeria was in 1978 when he was a visiting lecturer at
the University of Lagos, was in Ibadan. in 2004 and apart from
John Updike (in the 1970s), Charles Rowell and Ishmael Reed (in
the late 90s), he is perhaps the other significant author that
has visited Ibadan.
Aside from the
interaction he had with students and staff of the Department of
English, University of Ibadan, during his last visit, the 1993
American Book Award winner for the collection of poetry, The
Eyes in the ceiling, also held a photo exhibition of African
American writers entitled Visualizing African American Writers
curated by his younger colleague, Dr. Howard Ramsby II, at the
Museum of the Institute of African studies, University of Ibadan.
The poet,
photographer, and musician who breezed in to town during the
week is around to promote the 2005 and 2006 editions of DrumVoices Revue, which features ten Nigerian poets.
He will be hosted on
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 3;30 pm at Educare Trust Exhibition
Centre, Coca Cola area, Sango-Oremeji,. Ibadan, where he will
sign autographs and sell copies of the journal.
A release signed by
Folorunso Moshood, programme officer of Educare Trust disclosed
that the occasion would also feature performances by Educare
Trust Players.
Source:
Nigerian Tribune
(Friday 19 May 2006)
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Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club--Founded in 1986 and named after East St. Louis Poet Laureate
Eugene B. Redmond, Writers Club trustees include Amiri Baraka,
Angelou, Walter Mosley, Barbara Ann Teer, Quincy Troupe, Dr. Lena
Weathers, and Avery Brooks. Trustees also serve on the editorial
board of Drumvoices Revue. Deceased Trustees include Margaret
Walker Alexander (1915-1998), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), and
Raymond R. Patterson (1929-2001).
The kwansaba, a 49-word poetic form
invented during the Writers Club’s 1995 workshop season
(in East St. Louis), consists of seven lines of seven
words each; each word must contain between one and seven
letters. Exceptions to the seven-letter rule are proper
nouns and some foreign terms. Previous issues of Drumvoices
have featured kwansabas for Katherine Dunham
(2004), Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (2005), and Jayne Cortez
(2006). Following is an example of a kwansaba from
Drumvoices
#13:
Neo Kwansaba in Barakan Verse
(Mali Newman)
Poetree grown from stanzas tongues my ears
Don’t play Dough Ray Mi Vaso Latte
Unless Dada Doowop Dadaism is dead, unless
Trans (it) Blues in C, major or minor
Died by volumes twenty one times, don’t
Play scale up/scale down, while Baraka
Breaks off a piece of his mind.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Age of Silver: Encounters with Great Photographers
By John Loengard
Age of Silver is iconic American photographer John Loengard’s ode to the art form to which he dedicated his life. Loengard, a longtime staff photographer and editor for LIFE magazine and other publications, spent years documenting modern life for the benefit of the American public. Over the years he trained his camera on dignitaries, artists, athletes, intellectuals, blue and whitecollar workers, urban and natural landscapes, manmade objects, and people of all types engaged in the act of living. In
Age of Silver, Loengard gathers his portraits of some of the most important photographers of the last half-century, including Annie Leibovitz, Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and many, many others. Loengard caught them at home and in the studio; posed portraits and candid shots of the artists at work and at rest. Complimenting these revealing, expertly composed portraits are elegant photographs of the artists holding their favorite or most revered negatives. This extra dimension to the project offers an inside peek at the artistic process and is a stark reminder of the physicality of the photographic practice at a time before the current wave of digital dominance. There is no more honest or faithful reproduction of life existent in the world of image making than original, untouched silver negatives. Far from an attempt to put forth a singular definition of modern photographic practice, this beautifully printed, duotone monograph instead presents evidence of the unique vision and extremely personal style of every artist pictured. Annie Leibovitz is quoted in her caption as once saying, “I am always perplexed when people say that a photograph has captured someone. A photograph is just a piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.” —PowerhouseBooks |
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World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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