Thomas Sayers Ellis

The love of sound

by Erick Trickey

posted 2/1/2005

This past fall, poet and teacher Thomas Sayers Ellis offered "Literary Arts and the New Black Aesthetic," a class he designed "for black writers interested in destroying the false boundaries between prose and poetic dictions to achieve total life and freedom in their work." It's a bold promise, but Ellis delivers. His first book of poems,

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