The speaker Ishmael Reed's title, "Poet As Prophet and Oracle" for his lecture on Sunday sounds interesting for students who like literature. Ishmael Reed is considered as a prophet as oracle because his writing demonstrates that he is a great improviser. He has the ability to divergent materials into forms of surprise, revelation, and frequent hilarity. However, people who focus primarily on how funny or unfunny his works are missing the point of his humor as a weapon in the very serious enterprise of exposing human excesses. …
