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Echo tree : the collected short fiction of Henry Dumas / edited and with a new foreword by Eugene B. Redmond ; introduction by John Keene.

Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968 (author.). Redmond, Eugene, (editor,, writer of foreword.). Keene, John, 1965- (writer of introduction.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781566896078 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 156689607X (trade paperback)
Physical Description: xxxiv, 381 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:

First edition: 2003.

Formatted Contents Note:

Take this river! -- Ark of bones -- Ark of bones -- Echo tree -- The crossing -- Goodbye, Sweetwater -- A boll of roses Double nigger -- A Harlem game -- Will the circle be unbroken? -- Strike and fade -- Fon -- Rope of wind -- The marchers -- The eagle the dove and the blackbird -- Scout -- Harlem -- The university of man -- Rope of wind -- Children of the sun -- Devil bird -- Invasion -- The lake -- The distributors -- Thrust counter thrust -- Six days you shall labor -- The man who could see through fog -- The voice -- Thalia -- The metagenesis of Sunra -- Rain god -- The bewitching bag -- My brother, my brother! -- The metagenesis of Sunra -- Riot or revolt?