The Maverick Room: Poems
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Author: Thomas Sayers EllisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 1555974147
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Book Review: Showcases a new and original voice in American poetry
Summary: 5 Stars
The debut collection of poetry by Thomas Sayers Ellis (co-founder of The Dark Room Collective, a gathering place for young African American poets), The Maverick Room showcases a new and original voice in American poetry, one marked by inner-city youth culture energy that is part lyrical narrative, part "Parliament Funkadelic", a blind of chaos and control through the sheer and simple power of words. The Roll Call: Any half-decent rapper/Can conjure the dead,//Can reach into graves/And accuse God//Of Indian-giving./The trick is ancestral,//No more magic than memory's/Hidden strings & chains.//Trust me,/We haven't forgotten a name.//Say them. Raise your hands./Holler at me!
Summary of The Maverick Room: Poems
With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Thomas Sayers Ellis?s debut becomes a powerful argument against monotony
A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty.
And yet another anthem and yet another heaven
and yet another party wants you.
Wants you wants you wants you.
?from ?Groovallegiance?
In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, ?Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show / Will slip on a peel left in the avant- gutter.? The result is The Maverick Room, the testing ground of determination and serendipity, where call-and-response becomes Steinian echo becomes Post-Soul percussive pleasure becomes a bootlegged recording hustled out of a D.C. go-go club.
A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty.
And yet another anthem and yet another heaven
and yet another party wants you.
Wants you wants you wants you.
?from ?Groovallegiance?
In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, ?Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show / Will slip on a peel left in the avant- gutter.? The result is The Maverick Room, the testing ground of determination and serendipity, where call-and-response becomes Steinian echo becomes Post-Soul percussive pleasure becomes a bootlegged recording hustled out of a D.C. go-go club.
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