Genuine Negro Hero

Sayers Ellis Thomas

Description

"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

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: The Kent State University Press
• Date de parution: 12 mars 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781631011061
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE GENUINE NEGRO HERO
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Two
Maggie Anderson, Editor
In the Arbor
Nancy Kuhl
white
Mary Weems
The Memory Palace
Colin Hamilton
Nixon and I
Karen Kovacik
Surge
Matthew Cooperman
Recipe for Blackberry Cake
Diane Gilliam Fisher
Weeks in This Country
Vivé Griffith
The Memphis Sun
Jim Murphy
The Genuine Negro Hero
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Lot of My Sister
Alison Stine
THE GENUINE NEGRO HERO

Thomas Sayers Ellis
The Kent State University Press
Kent, Ohio, and London
© 2001 by Thomas Sayers Ellis
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 00-012234
ISBN 0-87338-704-x
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The Wick Poetry Chapbook Series is sponsored by the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Program and the Department of English at Kent State University.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ellis, Thomas Sayers, 1963—
The genuine negro hero / by Thomas Sayers Ellis.
p. cm.—(Wick poetry chapbook series two; no. 9)
ISBN 0-87338-704-x (pbk.: alk paper) ∞
I. Title. II. Wick poetry chapbook series; ser. 2, no. 9. PS 3555. L 6168 G 46 2001 811'.54—dc21 00-012234
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.
For Charles Rowell
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
One
Zapruder
A Kiss in the Dark
Slow Fade to Black
View-Master
Glory
Spellbound
Careless Love
The Man of Numbers
Two
Heads (All Caps), 1989
Cowboy Minimalism
Balloon Dog (1993)
Practice: For Derek Walcott
My Autopsy
I   The Man in the Dark Room
II   A Shaved and Uncombed Universe
III   Hush Yo Mouf
The Genuine Negro Hero
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals, where these poems first appeared: Agni: “The Man in the Dark Room,&