The maverick room
poems
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Author
Publication
2005 - Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minn, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
30,250 words, Guess
Page Count
121 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3315406M
- ISBN-101555974147
- OCLC Control Number57394894
- OCLC Control Numbermaverickroompoem0000elli
- Library of Congress Control Number2004109265
and 2 more
- Goodreads327602
- LibraryThing1491866
Classifications
- LCCPS3555.L6168 M38 2005
Description
"In this powerhouse debut, Thomas Sayers Ellis in one poem 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 hip-hop becomes a bootlegged recording hustled out a DC go-go club. With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Ellis's debut collection becomes a powerful argument against monotony-just when "All their stanzas look alike," just when language fails in the face of catastrophe, just when, as Ellis confesses, "the twin terrors at the center of the word dollar / have made me and my craft liar-cowards." -- Publisher's description.
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