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.
Hansel and Gretel 
The Silvering 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
The Lover's Pinch 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The Art of Derek Walcott 
Insistence 
Over the Moon 
Pleased to See Me 
Jinx 
The Moon Before Morning 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
A Monkey At the Window 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Book of Mercy 
Leaf Graffiti 
Signs Like This 
The 'White City'