Reviews for The Green Tuxedo

The average rating for The Green Tuxedo based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-20 00:00:00 Jon Stran This book of poems was not easy to read, but there is beautiful language and he writes from a deep philosophical place that I know because I've been slowly reading his book Orpheus in the Bronx. This man is schooled in the academic realm of poetry that I don't even want to attempt. Some lines from the preceding poem in the book which is the title poem, The Angel of Interruptions: We interrupt this broadcast/to bring you a fatal infinity, the difference between fiction/and a clouded-over sky. We interrupt these lines/to bring you pebbles spilled from an open palm, someone/cleaning out his mind: here are some pockets/filled with salt, useful in case of dehydration. You can't walk through/ the thinghood empty-handed, shirking the knives/of fact. What is destroyed sends you its kisses, the art/of a homelessness. The body is a factory that manufactures salt. There is much to think about in this poem about homelessness in of Chicago. The predominance of salt is big, black people who lived through the middle passage have altered kidney functions, hence the high incidence of high blood pressure in African Americans. It's a theory that his hard to prove, but it makes sense. Reginald is a gay black man who has felt out of place his whole life. I was first drawn to his work when I read his article in Poets & Writers Magazine in the not too distant past, since that he has died. He was about my same age. I plan to read more of his books, each one he took on a new challenge so he does not have one style.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-29 00:00:00 Eudene Mcdowell a little disco gay for my taste, some real powerful lines but i just couldnt get over the strobe light repitition.