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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Patricia, 1955-     Subjects     Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Poetry.     Blacks -- United States -- Poetry.     American poetry -- Black authors.     American poetry -- Women authors.     American poetry -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Patricia, 1955-       by title:      Incendiary art : poe...       by call number:      811.6 S656i     Search the Web     Smith, Patricia, 1955-     Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Poetry.     Blacks -- United States -- Poetry.     American poetry -- Black authors.     American poetry -- Women authors.     American poetry -- 21st century.       MARC Display

Incendiary art : poems / Patricia Smith. by Smith, Patricia, 1955- TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2017. Call #: 811.6 S656i Subjects Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Poetry.   Blacks -- United States -- Poetry.   American poetry -- Black authors.   American poetry -- Women authors.   American poetry -- 21st century. URL856 View Patricia Smith's 2012 presentation at The Loft Literary Center, on YouTube. ISBN:  9780810134331 (pbk.) Description:  132 p. ; 22 cm. Contents:  Incendiary -- When black men drown their daughters -- Accidental -- Shotting into the mirror. Summary:  "One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today's literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the "dark magicians," and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. Smith embraces elaborate and eloquent language - "her gorgeous fallen son a horrid hidden / rot. Her tiny hand starts crushing roses - one by one / by one she wrecks the casket's spray. It's how she / mourns - a mother, still, despite the roar of thorns"--As she sharpens her unerring focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning. Smith envisions, reenvisions, and ultimately reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. With poems impossible to turn away from, she reveals what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history. Patricia Smith is the author of six volumes of poetry. She is an associate professor of English at CUNY/College of Staten Island"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  American poetry. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 811.6 S656i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 811.6 S656i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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