Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
By Patricia Smith
Winner of 2013 Wheatley publication Award in Poetry
Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award
"Patricia Smith is writing the superior poetry in the United States at the present time. Ms Smith’s new booklet, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is simply beautifuland just like the the US she embodies and representsdangerously attractive. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a beautiful and transcendent murals, regardless of, and maybe as a result of, its discomfort. This ebook shines." Sapphire
"One of the simplest poets round and has been for a protracted time." Terrance Hayes
"Smith's paintings is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome." Gwendolyn Brooks
In her most modern assortment, Patricia Smith explores the second one wave of the nice Migration. moving from spoken notice to unfastened verse to conventional kinds, she unearths "that soul underneath the vinyl."
Patricia Smith is the writer of 5 volumes of poetry, together with Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 nationwide publication Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a countrywide Poetry sequence choice. She lives in New Jersey.
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