{"id":39444,"date":"2015-01-14T23:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39444"},"modified":"2016-12-27T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:58:42","slug":"skin-inc-identity-repair-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39444","title":{"rendered":"Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Graywolf Press<\/a>
\n2010-08-31
\n192 pages
\nTrim Size: 6 x 9
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7<\/p>\n

Thomas Sayers Ellis<\/strong><\/a>, co-Founder
\nThe Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning <\/em>The Maverick Room<\/a><\/p>\n

Skin, Inc.<\/em> is Thomas Sayers Ellis\u2019s 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\u2014along 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<\/a>; the King of Pop, Michael Jackson<\/a>; and the election of President Barack Obama<\/a>. 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\u2019 rejections of his own poetry included in the book; another poem, \u201cRace Change Operation,\u201d begins: \u201cWhen I awake I will be white, the color of law.\u201d Skin, Inc.<\/em> is the latest work by one of the most audacious and provocative poets now writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems Graywolf Press 2010-08-31 192 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7 Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-Founder The Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,8,1617,20],"tags":[11550,19061],"class_list":["post-39444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-graywolf-press","tag-thomas-sayers-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41875,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions\/41875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}