Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah PDF Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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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.

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah PDF Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
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.

Reparations Now!

Reparations Now! PDF Author: Ashley M. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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What is the price of a life, a stolen culture, a stolen heart? In formal and nontraditional poems, Reparations Now! asks for what is owed. Moving between voices and through intersecting histories, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones offers perspectives both sharp and compassionate, exploring the difficulties of navigating our relationships with ourselves and others. From the murder of Mary Turner in 1918 to a case of infidelity to the oppressive nationalist movement of the present, Jones holds us accountable.

The Remembered Gate

The Remembered Gate PDF Author: Jay Lamar
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural to the urban, and in time from the first years of the 20th century to the height of the Civil Rights era and beyond.

Magic City Gospel

Magic City Gospel PDF Author: Ashley M. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235269
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A love song to Birmingham, the Magic City of the South. In traditional forms and free verse poems ... [the author] takes readers on a historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through her life and the life of her home state [of Alabama]"--

Alabama Poets

Alabama Poets PDF Author: Ralph Hammond
Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
ISBN: 9780942979077
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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From the editor's preface comes, The Greeks tell us that an anthology is a gathering of flowers. This collection then, is a gathering of poetical flowers from the Alabama scene. The anthology contains works of more than fifty Alabama poets, from John Allison to A.J. Wright.

The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928

The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928 PDF Author: Alabama Writers' Conclave
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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What Is A Poet?

What Is A Poet? PDF Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.

Quarantine Daybook

Quarantine Daybook PDF Author: Carrie Chappell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946340368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Known by Salt

Known by Salt PDF Author: Tina Mozelle Braziel
Publisher: Anhinga Press
ISBN: 9781934695609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Poetry: Tina Braziel's 'Known by Salt' is very much a book of celebrations. One arc of the book is the move from a life in trailer parks to a house that Tina and her husband build with their own hands, stud by stud, window by window. It is also a celebration of Alabama, with its forests, its rivers and lakes, and its creatures: snakes, deer, birds, lizards. Her observations are so keen - 'herons lift their backward knees' - that they make me laugh out loud in my own celebration. This attention to detail is what Roethke called long looking, and it is everywhere in these well-wrought poems."--C.G. Hanzlicek, 2017 Judge, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

Juneteenth for Mazie

Juneteenth for Mazie PDF Author: Floyd Cooper
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515863387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph, as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth.