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Despite decades of notoriety as one of the filthiest books in the world, Steve Cannon's first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris-based Ophelia Press in 1969. Due to its scarcity, the New York Press deemed it an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth. This debut, revised for release by Olympia Press in 1971, cemented Cannon's place as a stalwart of the East Village and key figure in New York's black avant-gardeinspiring a generation to break with staid literary modernism, according to Cannon's friend and collaborator Ishmael Reed, for whom its release signaled a resurfacing of the irreverent, underground trickster tradition of black orature. Seeped psychedelia and hoodoo, this erotic farce follows Anette, a fourteen-year-old runaway, from the outhouse of a New Orleans juke joint to the land of Oo-bla-dee, a realm of bacchanalian s

Groove Bang and Jive Around

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      Publisher Blank Forms Editions
      Published 5 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781953691194
      978-1953691194
      ISBN-10 1953691196
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      Book Synopsis
      Despite decades of notoriety as one of the filthiest books in the world, Steve Cannon's first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris-based Ophelia Press in 1969. Due to its scarcity, the New York Press deemed it an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth. This debut, revised for release by Olympia Press in 1971, cemented Cannon's place as a stalwart of the East Village and key figure in New York's black avant-gardeinspiring a generation to break with staid literary modernism, according to Cannon's friend and collaborator Ishmael Reed, for whom its release signaled a resurfacing of the irreverent, underground trickster tradition of black orature. Seeped psychedelia and hoodoo, this erotic farce follows Anette, a fourteen-year-old runaway, from the outhouse of a New Orleans juke joint to the land of Oo-bla-dee, a realm of bacchanalian s

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