Echo Tree - The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas / ISBN 9781566896078 / 416-page paperback from Coffee House Press *** "Dumas brought his gift as a poet to prose, and his deft ear picked up voices whether from the living or the dead. He was doing Lovecraft Country decades before it went viral. If there were such a thing as an Afro-Gothic school of artists, included would be Thelonious Monk, Horace Pippin, Albert Ayler, Betye and Lezley Saar—and Henry Dumas, a legend while living and a legend in the afterlife."--Ishmael Reed Africanfuturism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction: Henry Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, 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 real, magical, and mythic quests. Humming wit