Description
Incendiary Art confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of murdered African American men. Dynamic sequences, including a compelling chronicle of the devastating murder of Emmett Till, serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. With impassioned eloquence and a sharpened focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning, Patricia Smith reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. This phenomenal, visionary book addresses what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history now. Winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 2018 NAACP Image Award, Incendiary Art was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Being Alive 
A Little Body Are Many Parts 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Poems 
Hansel and Gretel 
Selected Poetry 
The Restaurant of Mud 
Dog Poems 
Spiritlands 
Steep Tea 
Strong in the Rain 
This Is Yarrow 
Jinx 
A Monkey At the Window 
Insistence 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Book of Mercy 
And You, Helen 
The Visitations 
Short Days, Long Shadows 
The 'White City'