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SKIN, INC.: IDENTITY REPAIR POEMS By Thomas Sayers Ellis - Hardcover *BRAND NEW*
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- ISBN-10
- 1555975674
- Publication Name
- Graywolf Press
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781555975678
- Book Title
- Skin, Inc : Identity Repair Poems
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- American / African American, General
- Item Width
- 7.2in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Naturally, this will scare the civil rights out of some and, for a mad-moment, empower a great many wrong-cultured others. --from " The Return of Colored Only " Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers Ellis's big, ambitious argument in sound and image for an America whose identity is in need of repair. In lyric sequences and with his own photographs, Ellis traverses the African American and American literary landscapes--along the way adding race fearlessness to past and present literary styles and themes, and perform-a-forming tributes for the Godfather of Soul, James Brown; the King of Pop, Michael Jackson; and the election of President Barack Obama. Part manifesto, part identity repair kit, part plea for poetic wholeness, this collection worries and self-defends, eulogizes and casts a vote, raises a fist and, often, an intimidating song. One sequence is written as a sonic/ visual diagram of pronouns and vowels; another quotes from editors' rejections of his own poetry included in the book; another poem, "Race Change Operation," begins: "When I awake I will be white, the color of law." Skin, Inc. is the latest work by one of the most audacious and provocative poets now writing.
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Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555975674
ISBN-13
9781555975678
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Book Title
Skin, Inc : Identity Repair Poems
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
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"Thomas Sayers Ellis is one of the most gifted poets of his generation and more. He reminds me of the ancient Greek bards who found poetic and theatrical vehicles to comment on contemporary politics and society-those great intellectuals and artists Athenians turned to when they wanted something closer to the truth than the official story. In this brilliant and penetrating collection, Ellis throws himself into the role of political bard, a voice of challenge and reason and utopia and warning in the age of Obama. Skin, Inc., is about repair and reflection, it's about coming to terms with history so we can move forward, not to a postracial future but an antiracist and ultimately postracist society. But he is less interested in recounting our histories of oppressions than in our creative capacity, the black roots of a unique prosody, and the power of poetry and the poet to speak to beauty, grace, perseverance, in the face of violence, enslavement, commodification. Ellis has something to say about the moment we're in, and he is that rare breed of Poet, the kind whose works will be studied for generations to come, whose name will be uttered alongside that other great T. S." -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Thomas Sayers Ellis is one of the most gifted poets of his generation and more. He reminds me of the ancient Greek bards who found poetic and theatrical vehicles to comment on contemporary politics and society-those great intellectuals and artists Athenians turned to when they wanted something closer to the truth than the official story. In this brilliant and penetrating collection, Ellis throws himself into the role of political bard, a voice of challenge and reason and utopia and warning in the age of Obama. Skin, Inc., is about repair and reflection, it's about coming to terms with history so we can move forward, not to a postracial future but an antiracist and ultimately postracist society. But he is less interested in recounting our histories of oppressions than in our creative capacity, the black roots of a unique prosody, and the power of poetry and the poet to speak to beauty, grace, perseverance, in the face of violence, enslavement, commodification. Ellis has something to say about the moment we're in, and he is that rare breed of Poet, the kind whose works will be studied for generations to come, whose name will be uttered alongside that other great T. S.
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