Maverick Room Poems

Name: Maverick Room Poems
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ISBN: 9781555974145

ISBN-10: 1555974147

ISBN-13: 9781555974145

Edition: 2005

Authors: Thomas Sayers Ellis

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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.

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 1/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Thomas Sayers Ellisis a poet and photographer. He is the author of a previous poetry book,The Maverick Room, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the low-residency program at Lesley University. He lives in Brooklyn.



Starchild


Marcus Garvey vitamins


A Baptist beat


The roll call


A pack of cigarettes


Sticks


Nicknames


That fuss was us


Zapruder


Barracuda


Slow fade to black


Sir Nose D'VoidoFunk


Spellbound


Glory


Undressing Mr. Wiggles


My autopsy


The break of dawn


Cowbell


Giant steps


On display


Take me out to the go-go


The Moonlite Inn


Block party


Tapes


Shooting back


Stalking another man's hands


A kiss in the dark


Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein


View-master


Bright moments


A psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop


Fatal April


A dope dog with serious eyes versus the thumpasorus peoples (the thumps bump) b/w brand-new brand name


Tambourine Tommy


Atomic bride


View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School


Practice


My own - stones


T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.


All their stanzas look alike


Groovallegiance


The dollar signs of autumn