![]() ![]() Smith’s previous book, Blood Dazzler, chronicling the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain.” The book also won the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award and was a finalist for the William Carlos William Award from the Poetry Society of America. Savannah was praised by Sapphire, author of Push: “ Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah was winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, awarded to the best poetry book published in the United States the previous year. Patricia Smith, lauded by critics as “a testament to the power of words to change lives,” is the author of six acclaimed poetry volumes. ![]()
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