{"product_id":"smith-patricia-shoulda-been-jimi-savannah","title":"Smith, Patricia: Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee House Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 27, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful--and like the America she embodies and represents--dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain. This book shines.\" --Sapphire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best poets around and has been for a long time.\" --Terrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith's work is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome.\" --Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45176147148823,"sku":"9781566892995","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/714EWA1gycL._SL1500.jpg?v=1779919061","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/smith-patricia-shoulda-been-jimi-savannah","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}