Download or read book Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah written by Patricia Smith and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Reparations Now written by Ashley M. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Remembered Gate written by Jay Lamar and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Magic City Gospel written by Ashley M. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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]"--

Download or read book Alabama s Best Emerging Poets written by Z. Publishing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once famous for its cotton fields that stretched beyond the horizon, Alabama has since moved into the 21st century. Home to a thriving aerospace industry, Alabama makes it possible to fly above its beautiful landscape. But its friendly and welcoming residents are the reason to keep coming back. This pristine land and kind people are the inspiration for poetry. And in Alabama's Best Emerging Poets, 66 up-and-coming poets have the chance to share their own words. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing one poem per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Download or read book Alabama Poets written by Ralph Hammond and published by Livingston Press (AL). This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Alabama written by Rodney Jones and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story, all expressed with the intimate voice and vision of Rodney Jones.

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Download or read book dark thing written by Ashley M. Jones and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dark // thing is a multifaceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work, full as it is of slashes of all kinds, ultimately separates darkness from thingness, affirming and celebrating humanity.

Download or read book Alabama s Best Emerging Poets 2019 written by Z Publishing House and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once famous for its cotton fields that stretched beyond the horizon, Alabama has since moved into the 21st century. Home to a thriving aerospace industry, Alabama makes it possible to fly above its beautiful landscape. But its friendly and welcoming residents are the reason to keep coming back. This pristine land and kind people are the inspiration for poetry. And in Alabama's Best Emerging Poets 2019, 43 up-and-coming poets have the chance to share their own words. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from love and heartbreak, family and friendship, the inherent beauty of nature, and so much more, these young talents will amaze you. Containing one poem per poet, this anthology is a compelling introduction to the great wordsmiths of tomorrow.

Download or read book Some University of Alabama Poets Sixth Series written by University of Alabama. Chi Delta Phi, ed and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Literary History of Alabama written by Benjamin Buford Williams and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological survey of nineteenth-century Alabama authors. Presents a vivid picture of life in the South in 19th-century America.

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