In the mid-1960s, the visionary, otherworldly musician Sun Ra formed a
brief but tight bond with the late storyteller, activist and poet Henry Dumas.
The Ark and the Ankh is a 1966 document of dialogues and meditations between
the poet and the musician set to the fervent musical experiments of the Arkestra.The
Ark and the Ankh offers an essential insight into the quirkily brilliant,
totally controversial and completely inimitable thought of Sun Ra candidly
shared with and challenged by one of his most adoring disciples.The Ankh
and The Ark features a new introduction by the executor of the Henry Dumas
Estate, Eugene B. Redmond and a reprint of a scarce article and interview
by Henry Dumas that was originally published in the Hiram Poetry Review.