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"[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important
poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."-Latino Rebels Black Girl
Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets
anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women
writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a
boys' club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine
form. Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and
graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana
Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by
Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores
blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago. Mahogany L. Browne
is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several
books including Smudge and Redbone. She directs the poetry program
of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer
and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The
Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the
2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York
Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award
Finalist.
New in paperback! Winner of the 1996 G.K. Hall Award and
Multicultural Review's 1995 Carey McWilliams Award. Paperback
edition available 2002. 'Designed to be used by librarians and
teachers exploring works written by and for African Americans...a
wonderful professional source to help in choosing literature for
school libraries...Recommended.'-THE BOOK REPORT 'This collection
will fill an important need for school and public libraries seeking
a more scholarly dialogue on African-American literature for young
adults.'-VOYA
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.
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.
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane
Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction.
From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed,
through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its
"scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the
heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded
in New Orleans as America watched it on television.
Assuming the voices of flailing politicians, the dying, their
survivors, and the voice of the hurricane itself, Smith follows the
woefully inadequate relief effort and stands witness to families
held captive on rooftops and in the Superdome. She gives voice to
the thirty-four nursing home residents who drowned in St. Bernard
Parish and recalls the day after their deaths when George W. Bush
accompanied country singer Mark Willis on guitar:
"The cowboy grins through the terrible din, "
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"And in the Ninth, a choking woman wails"
Look like this country done left us for dead.
An unforgettable reminder that poetry can still be "news that
stays news," "Blood Dazzler "is a necessary step toward national
healing.
Patricia Smith is the author of four previous collections of
poetry, including "Teahouse of the Almighty," winner of the
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. A
record-setting, national poetry slam champion, she was featured in
the film "Slamnation," on the HBO series "Def Poetry Jam," and is a
frequent contributor to "Harriet," the Poetry Foundation's blog.
Visit her website at www.wordwoman.ws.
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.
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Leafy Sea Dragons (Paperback)
Patricia Smith; Designed by Tara Raymo; Edited by Luana K Mitten
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"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.
"The Story of Lynn" is a mother's story of her remarkable daughter,
who was killed in a tragic accident. The memories of her daughter's
life and how she has dealt with the aftermath will inspire you.
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.
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.
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Leafy Sea Dragons (Hardcover)
Patricia Smith; Designed by Tara Raymo; Edited by Luana K Mitten
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