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Slo' Dance
Poems by Ted Wilson
with an Introduction by Amiri Baraka Reviews
Who is Ted Wilson? The answer is a
poet who should be included in your morning rituals. His words
inform, infuse our lives with precision and politics and love.
Who is Ted Wilson. A Poet to be read agains and again and again.
--Sonia Sanchez
This is an interesting collection
of poetry and prose that's long overdue. Ted Wilson's work is
the result of a forty-year search for a sense of understanding
the racial experience in urban America. This journey through
politics, love of life and changing cultures is a celebration of
survival in the heart of a real complaint. Ted Wilson boldly
slow dances across time.
--Jayne Cortez
With Ted Wilson's poems, you can
play some Ma Rainey behind you, some Lester Young or Bird, 'Trane,
Sun Ra and Satch right alongside Sam Cooke soul-stirring Aretha,
or the Moonglows and Diablos mellowing out. (Your choice), but
it's all Ted, breathing the range of pain, tone and dance that
shape a renaissance still unfolding.
--Louis Reyes Rivera
[His] poetry carries a specific
history, even its speech and reference characterize a path a
maintenance a reconfirmation of a certain social consciousness
that is easily related from the natural context of its author's
understanding. He is telling us, but initially re-telling
himself.
--Amiri Baraka
Source:
Ted Wilson.
Slo' Dance.
Brooklyn, NY: Shamal Books, 2003 /
Contact: Shamal Books, GPO Box 16, NYC 10116
(718) 622 4426
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