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Incendiary Art confronts the tyranny against the black male body
and the tenacious grief of the mothers of murdered African American
men. Dynamic sequences, including a compelling chronicle of the
devastating murder of Emmett Till, serve as a backdrop for
present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. With
impassioned eloquence and a sharpened focus on incidents of
national mayhem and mourning, Patricia Smith reinvents the role of
witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems,
ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. This phenomenal, visionary book
addresses what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about
history now. Winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and
2018 NAACP Image Award, Incendiary Art was a finalist for the 2018
Pulitzer Prize and 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the
nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning
poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare
nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children
who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of
time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their
incendiary and critical era. Smith’s searing stanzas and
revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism
and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs
and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives: We ache
for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These
tragic grays and bustles, mourners’ hats plopped high upon our
tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does
with us. The poet’s unrivaled dexterity with dramatic monologue
and poetic form reanimates these countenances, staring back from
such yesterdays, and the stories they may have told. This is one of
American literature’s finest wordsmiths doing what she does
best—unreeling history to find its fierce and formidable lyric.
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.
"Expert and instinctive, like a cool Ed Wilkerson sax solo bouncing
with lived rhythms. Morton's consummate poems will echo long after
they are read." -Booklist Selected by Patricia Smith as winner of
the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Matt Morton's debut poetry
collection Improvisation Without Accompaniment embraces uncertainty
with a spirit of joyous playfulness. These lyric poems follow the
rhythms of life for a young man growing up in a small Texas town.
As the speaker wrestles with ruptures within the nuclear family and
the loss of his religious beliefs, he journeys toward a deeper
self-awareness and discovers a fuller palette of experiences. Over
the course of this collection, the changing seasons of small-town
Texas life give way to surprise encounters in distant cities. The
speaker's awareness of mortality grows even as he improvises an
affirming response to life's toughest questions. Poignant,
searching, and earnestly philosophical, Improvisation Without
Accompaniment reaches for meaning within life's joys and griefs.
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.
Selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr.
Poetry Prize, Matt Morton's debut poetry collection Improvisation
Without Accompaniment embraces uncertainty with a spirit of joyous
playfulness. These lyric poems follow the rhythms of life for a
young man growing up in a small Texas town. As the speaker wrestles
with ruptures within the nuclear family and the loss of his
religious beliefs, he journeys toward a deeper self-awareness and
discovers a fuller palette of experiences. Over the course of this
collection, the changing seasons of small-town Texas life give way
to surprise encounters in distant cities. The speaker's awareness
of mortality grows even as he improvises an affirming response to
life's toughest questions. Poignant, searching, and earnestly
philosophical, Improvisation Without Accompaniment reaches for
meaning within life's joys and griefs.
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Leafy Sea Dragons (Hardcover)
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