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Author Smith, Patricia, 1955-

Title Shoulda been Jimi Savannah : poems / Patricia Smith.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  PS3569.M537839 S56 2012    Available  ---
Description 115 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Old backdrops dark -- How mamas begin sometimes -- Still life with toothpick -- Keep saying heaven and it will -- Before orphan unearthed the mirror -- Fixing on the next star -- One way to run from it -- Annie Pearl, upward -- Otis and Annie, Annie and Otis -- June 25, 1955 -- Shoulda been Jimi Savannah -- Chicago -- Tenzone -- 3315 W. Washington, 3A -- Alliance -- 2. We shined like the new things we were -- A colored girl will slice you if you talk wrong about Motown -- Annie Pearl's arethabops -- True that --Shedding -- Laugh your troubles away! -- The boss of me -- 3. Learning to subtract -- Ooo, baby, baby -- First friction -- Speculation -- Jumping doubledutch -- Minus one. Minus one more. -- And now the news : tonight the soldiers -- Have soul and die -- Next. Next -- 4. Mad at my whole damn face -- Ain't but one way heaven makes sense -- Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered tavern, -- Sanctified -- An all-purpose product -- Baby of the mistaken hue -- Because -- What Garfield Park kept saying -- To keep from saying Dead -- 13 ways of looking at 13 -- Dear Jimmy Connoll -- Carnie -- Guess who's closest to heaven -- His for the taking -- Dirty Diana -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras, take 2 -- 5. Wait -- An open letter to Joseph Peter Naras, take 3 -- Asking for a heart attack -- Hip-hop Ghazal -- Looking to see how the eyes inhabit dark, wondering about light -- Thief of tongues -- Motown crown.
Summary 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." -- amazon.com.
Awards Winner: Academy of American Poets 2013 Lenore Marshall Prize.
Winner: 2014 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry.
Subject African Americans -- Middle West -- Poetry.
African Americans.
Middle West.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject African Americans -- Migrations -- Poetry.
African Americans -- Migrations.
Genre/Form Poetry.
ISBN 9781566892995 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1566892996 (paperback ; alkaline paper)