Thomas Sayers Ellis
Auteur de The Maverick Room: Poems
A propos de l'auteur
Thomas Sayers Ellis is Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) and a faculty member of the Lesley University low-residency MFA program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Œuvres de Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Études
- Brown University
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - Professions
- poet
photographer
assistant professor - Organisations
- Sarah Lawrence College
Case Western Reserve University
Heroes Are Gang Leaders (cofounder) - Prix et distinctions
- Whiting Writers' Award (2005)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 107
- Popularité
- #180,615
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
The beauty and fire of The Maverick Room doesn't stop there, however. Ellis moves from form to form, keeping lines quick and unornamental, or letting them weigh down with density. He lets the form sit in tradition, or frees it to give and take from all the space on the page it needs.
Ellis lets his language create fast flowing idea, and those ideas become image and emotion. Culture and cultures float in and out in half reference -- everything from movies to music, art to clothing fads -- in half reference. Without a heavy hand, The Maverick Room combines that culture with sometimes subtle, sometimes not, shout-outs to Amiri Baraka, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, and other forebears. And bringing together Baraka and Hayden is like overcoming physics -- something Thomas Sayers Ellis does time and time again in this book.… (plus d'informations)