"His best work is characterized by thoughtfulness, strong descriptive skills flavored with vivid turns of phrase, and emotional complexities in both the poems themselves and the effects they evoke." --Boston Book Review
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Balloon Dog
Careless Love
Cowboy Minimalism
The Genuine Negro Hero
Glory
Heads (all Caps) 1989
A Kiss In The Dark
The Man Of Numbers
My Autopsy: 1. The Man In The Dark Room
My Autopsy: 2. A Shaved And Uncombed Universe
My Autopsy: 3. Hush Yo Mouf
Practice: For Derek Walcott
Slow Fade To Black
Spellbound
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Zapruder
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Careless Love
Cowboy Minimalism
The Genuine Negro Hero
Glory
Heads (all Caps) 1989
A Kiss In The Dark
The Man Of Numbers
My Autopsy: 1. The Man In The Dark Room
My Autopsy: 2. A Shaved And Uncombed Universe
My Autopsy: 3. Hush Yo Mouf
Practice: For Derek Walcott
Slow Fade To Black
Spellbound
View-master
Zapruder
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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excellent!,
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This review is from: The Genuine Negro Hero (Wick Poetry Chapbooks Series II) (Paperback)
Thomas Sayers Ellis is one of my favorite poets. I admire his skill, style, and playfulness. This is a great series of poems. I can't wait for his next book!
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This review is from: The Genuine Negro Hero (Wick Poetry Chapbooks Series II) (Paperback)
This collection takes the reader by the collar and jacks them up. TSE is the poet who taught coolaid to say "Ohhh Yeahhhh".
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Even better than the usual great stuff from Wick.,
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This review is from: The Genuine Negro Hero (Wick Poetry Chapbooks Series II) (Paperback)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State, 2001)
I've seen Thomas Sayers Ellis read a few times, but I've never actually picked up one of his books until now. As I am so often finding these days, it's in Kent's Wick Chapbook series, therefore it's tremendous. The Genuine Negro Hero, though, stands out even in this ocean of high-quality releases. Perhaps it's because Ellis has simply been doing it longer (longer, at least, than those in the series whose bios I've been able to find on the web), but the poems in this book come off as being more accomplished, more relaxed, as if the others in the series were trying too hard (albeit succeeding quite well). Ellis has a fine eye not only for what makes a poem work, but for what makes an effective poem in the first place: "A naked bulb on the dresser next to where they made me made them celebrities, giants, myth. I watched their black shadows on the wall, half-expecting fade-out and something romantic as the final scene of Love Crazy, my father a suave William Powell, my mother's slender body a backwards C in the tight focus of his arms..." (--"A Kiss in the Dark") Thomas Sayers Ellis is the real deal. This one's a great introduction to his work, and also to the Wick Chapbook series; that makes it doubly worth your time. ****
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