Unshuttered: Poems Smith Patricia
Unshuttered: Poems Smith Patricia An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth centuryOver the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a…
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Unshuttered: Poems Smith Patricia
An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth centuryOver the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Our eyes never touch. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives:We ache for fiction etched in black and white.
These tragic grays and bustles, mourners' hats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does with us.The poet's