โ Scribed by Patricia Smith
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
"What power. Smith's poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster."--Marvin Bell
"I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem."--Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judge
From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation's premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade--a National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry's liberating power.
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