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.
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.
Shifting from spoken word to free verse to traditional forms, she reveals that soul beneath the vinyl. --Gwendolyn Brooks In her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. --Terrance Hayes Smith\'s work is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome. --Sapphire One of the best poets around and has Been for a long time.
This book shines.
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain.
Ms Smith\'s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah , is just beautiful--and like the America she embodies and represents--dangerously beautiful.
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
