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Incendiary Art: Poems de Patricia Smith

Incendiary Art: Poems

Autor Patricia Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2017

Observăm în Incendiary Art o convergență rară între rigoarea formală a literaturii și urgența sociologiei politice, volumul fiind o explorare interdisciplinară a traumei istorice și contemporane. Patricia Smith nu se limitează la o simplă relatare a nedreptății, ci folosește structuri poetice consacrate — de la sonet la sestină — pentru a impune ordine în haosul durerii provocate de violența rasială. Găsim în această ediție internațională o analiză neiertătoare a rolului de martor, unde figura mamei care își plânge fiul devine punctul central al unei rezistențe prin limbaj.

Suntem de părere că această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție structurală față de volumele anterioare ale autoarei. Dacă în Blood Dazzler Smith urmărea cronologia unui dezastru natural precum uraganul Katrina, în Incendiary Art ea deconstruiește dezastrul uman, reinventând suferința colectivă prin secvențe dinamice despre cazul Emmett Till. Comparabil cu Of Poetry and Protest de Phil Cushway în rigurozitatea cu care documentează experiența afro-americană, volumul de față se distinge printr-o focalizare mai acută pe tehnica literară ca instrument de supraviețuire. Spre deosebire de abordarea retrospectivă din Monument de Natasha Trethewey, care investighează memoria istorică, Patricia Smith ancorează textul în prezentul imediat, transformând poezia într-un act de justiție socială activă. Ritmul este dens, marcat de o elocință care nu atenuează brutalitatea subiectului, ci o scoate în evidență prin contrastul cu frumusețea formei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810134331
ISBN-10: 0810134330
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor interesați de poezia contemporană care refuză să separe esteticul de politic. Câștigătoare a numeroase premii, printre care și NAACP Image Award, Incendiary Art oferă o lecție despre cum formele clasice pot fi utilizate pentru a procesa evenimente traumatice actuale. Este o lectură esențială pentru înțelegerea contextului social american, oferind o perspectivă profundă asupra suferinței și rezilienței mamelor în fața tragediilor naționale.

Despre autor

Patricia Smith este o figură centrală a literaturii americane contemporane, fiind editorialistă la Boston Globe, poetă și artistă de performance. Recunoscută pentru abilitatea sa de a îmbina rigoarea academică cu energia poeziei slam, ea a fost finalistă a Premiului Pulitzer și a câștigat distincții prestigioase precum Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2021) și Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Blood Dazzler și Unshuttered, este profund marcată de teme precum dreptatea socială, istoria negrilor în America și explorarea empatică a tragediilor umane.

Descriere scurtă

From National Book Award winner Patricia Smith 
 
One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today’s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the "dark magicians," and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance. Smith embraces elaborate and eloquent language— "her gorgeous fallen son a horrid hidden / rot. Her tiny hand starts crushing roses—one by one / by one she wrecks the casket’s spray. It’s how she / mourns—a mother, still, despite the roar of thorns"— as she sharpens her unerring focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning. Smith envisions, reenvisions, and ultimately reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms, including prose poems, ghazals, sestinas, and sonnets. With poems impossible to turn away from, one of America’s most electrifying writers reveals what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history. 
Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 
Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 
Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category  
Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 
Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award 
Winner, Abel Meeropol Award for Social Justice 
Finalist, Neustadt International Prize for Literature 
Winner, 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Notă biografică

PATRICIA SMITH’s honors include the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2021 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Unshuttered (TriQuarterly Books), and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, Smith is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a former distinguished professor at the City University of New York. 

Recenzii

"Smith exhibits razor-sharp linguistic sensibilities that give her scenes a cinematic flair and her lines a momentum that buoys their emotional weight. This is best captured in 'Elegy,' a stunning, long-lined poem about her thick-as-thieves relationship with her father, who found it difficult to be his wife’s 'sky and root.' Smith’s urgent collection lives up to its title, burning bright and urgent as a bonfire." —Publishers Weekly

“Patricia Smith’s moving collection of elegies combines the act of witness with the delights of lyric poetry, intervening with master narratives of history, or sociology, to rescue the suffering subject. The rich sonic texture of the work enables the subtle modulations of mordant wit, anger, and grief throughout the collection, where feeling is tuned by assonance and consonance.” —Averill Curdy, editor, The Longman Anthology of Poetry

“Incendiary Art is the fire this time. An epic in five movements where history becomes tragedy, becomes farce, becomes fable. Where the reader becomes complicit, where outcomes burn into forgotten memories, and where nobody gets off the hook.” —Marlon James
 

“As with Smith’s previous books, one encounters an urgent voice on the page that is exuberant, sharp, and questing in its search for understanding of the fatalities that besiege black life in America. The imaginative qualities of these poems and others are what make them captivating. She is a poet of immense originality, and these poems are a testament to her powers.” —Major Jackson, author of Roll Deep and Leaving Saturn: Poems

“Patricia Smith is a masterful poet, performer, and pundit. And while her chosen field is the form and grace of language, her gift to the world that orbits the Black experience is truth. This truth contains three extraordinary moments: (1) she conceives history in a way that deftly removes the chaff of lies; (2) seeing this history we know, or at least have the possibility of knowing, who and what we are; and (3) by taking us beyond America’s ahistorical tendencies the book gives us, many for the first time, a chance to imagine a future that includes our flaws and our potentials, all the while balancing the accounts of tragedy.” —Walter Mosley

"A tour de force at double the length of an expected poetry volume, Incendiary Artis bound to be one of this year’s most vital and devastating books, where Smith’s historical sweep, moral invective, and lyrical mastery speak truth to power and render these trying times unflinchingly... These stirring poems will make any reader shudder, weep, and strive for an America that finally regards all of its citizens, to borrow Malcolm X’s phrase, as righteous human beings." —Plume
"Smith... creates 'incendiary art,' and never have her meticulously structured and fully fueled poems been more scorching than in this acutely visceral, empathetically inhabited, and intimately detailed collection. Smith investigates with excruciating sensitivity and strange beauty the drowning of two baby black girls by their black fathers, accidental street shootings of the innocent, and police shootings of unarmed African Americans. With her latest heroically unflinching poems of incandescent clarity, Smith joins Angela Jackson and Claudia Rankine in the tragically growing chorus of poets decrying racial violence." —Booklist 

"Patricia is one of the poets writing today that I most deeply admire. Her work is always timely, powerful, necessary, and at turns heartbreaking."
—Natasha Trethewey, author of Thrall: Poems

"It’s a book of violence, outrage, grief, despair, a book about racism, that generalization we never stop packing with the lives that we destroy... a book of terrible beauty, opulent brutality, immersed in the contradictions that kindle in and around and in reaction to black lives and deaths. It’s hard to imagine art changing anything the book describes—hard to imagine it forestalling the next of these murders or undermining the state’s ability to explain away the next all-too-explainable killing of someone young and brown—but that impossibility makes these poems more compelling..." —The Kenyon Review

"Smith's new book is possibly her best work to date." —The Millions

Descriere

The ghost of Emmett Till takes breath and litany through the powerful lines in Patricia Smith’s new collection, Incendiary Art. Metaphors and painful snapshots, written with the precision of a poet who has conquered page and stage, capture the United States of America on the brink and the implosion of civil rights with the Mississippi murder of a young boy from Chicago. Smith is the one to tell this story. Known world-wide for her commanding poetry, Smith still holds close her Chicago roots and empathy. Patricia Smith breaks us wide open, challenges history and gives Emmet Till, and the ones who grieved through this injustice, voice and power.