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“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet.Every book is better than the last.”
—Danez Smith, The Guardian
“Incendiary Art is the fire this time.
An epic.”
Marlon James,
Award-winning author of THE DARK STAR TRILOGY and A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
“Her work is always timely, powerful, necessary,
and at turns heartbreaking.”
Natasha Trethewey,
author of MEMORIAL DRIVE: A DAUGHTER’S MEMOIR
Her command of the spoken voice gives her work both speed and pathos.
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Patricia Smith is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner 2025; Unshuttered; Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go, Gotta Flow, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty, Close to Death, Big Towns Big Talk, Life According to Motown; the children's book Janna and the Kings and the history Africans in America, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series…read more