Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: some well written gumbo...

(that's funny! "minus one star for kevin powell's introduction" ... you get 'a helpful' vote for that one!)er'body else done said the good thangs...so all i can do is stand here with my handsin my pockets and look silly while grownfolksis talkin...ive had this book for a few years now and i still havent readall of it (some of the journalistic essays just dont appeal to me)... but ive covered over 90 percent of it...poetry is my dominatrix, so i'ma fool for the poems.some excellentexcellent writing......thank god my sister has about a billion books, otherwiseshe might have realized this was missing from her collection by now.