Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893674
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah written by Patricia Smith and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith’s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and like the America she embodies and represents—dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain. This book shines." —Sapphire "One of the best poets around and has been for a long time." —Terrance Hayes "Smith's work is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome." —Gwendolyn Brooks In her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. Shifting from spoken word to free verse to traditional forms, she reveals "that soul beneath the vinyl." Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. She lives in New Jersey.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah written by Patricia Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects poetry with African American themes from Patricia Smith.

Author : Kevin Coval
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608463958
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The BreakBeat Poets written by Kevin Coval and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134349
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incendiary Art written by Patricia Smith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today’s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the "dark magicians," and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. Smith embraces elaborate and eloquent language— "her gorgeous fallen son a horrid hidden / rot. Her tiny hand starts crushing roses—one by one / by one she wrecks the casket’s spray. It’s how she / mourns—a mother, still, despite the roar of thorns"— as she sharpens her unerring focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning. Smith envisions, reenvisions, and ultimately reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. With poems impossible to turn away from, one of America’s most electrifying writers reveals what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Dazzler written by Patricia Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storm's-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893666
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teahouse of the Almighty written by Patricia Smith and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders. “What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell “I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem.”—Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judge From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation’s premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade—a National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry’s liberating power.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751294
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staten Island Noir written by Patricia Smith and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.

Author : Lynne Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988924833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Start with a Small Guitar written by Lynne Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start With A Small Guitar is a collection of poems that celebrate and suspect, extol and mourn, despise and pray for love, in all its terrible, bewitching iterations. Neither biography nor dream--despite the way the poems' titles mislead--these poems hope and pretend and, in the end, wrap their arms around a language that gives rise to love's mysteries. The poet hopes that her readers will be bewildered and enchanted, infuriated and left on a precipice. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Jan Beatty
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990695
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sugar written by Jan Beatty and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the “romantic” “and the “brutal” and how they exist within us and between us.

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Tia Chucha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life According to Motown written by Patricia Smith and published by Tia Chucha. This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems in Life according to Motown comprise a snapshot of my life at the time I lived it. They're an outloud rendering of vulnerabilities, triumphs, revelations, secrets, insecurities, rebirths, persistent music and, yes - quite a few missteps"--Page viii.