Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith

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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia SmithWinner 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 Smiths new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautifuland like the America she embodies and representsdangerously 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

-Terrance Hayes

Boston to L

the book spans continents and centuries

Kahuku” and Joy Harjo’s “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks”—exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation

painstaking work

the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder

engaging and refreshing

Shenandoah

a Brooklyn brownstone

” a poem that chronicles Shanahan’s survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco

The time is October 21

Sneed’s explorations of the woods are a metaphor and emotional path one must explore to attain self-ownership

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