A01=Patricia Smith
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American twentieth century
Author_Patricia Smith
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black poet
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coming of age
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family connections
free verse
Great Migration
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midcentury migration of African American families
modern urban focused storytelling
Motown
northward
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planting of roots
poetry
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second wave
softlaunch
spoken word
traditional forms
Product details
- ISBN 9781566892995
- Weight: 184g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2012
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry "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.
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 is also the author of the history Africans in America and the award-winning children's book Janna and the Kings. She is a professor at the City University of New York, and lives in New Jersey with her husband Bruce DeSilva, granddaughter Mikaila, and two dogs, Brady and Rondo.
