Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to the nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.

Collects the best poems from the author's award-winning books, along with new poems that confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.

"Tracing African American literary and artistic contributions from the 1700's to the 1990s, The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature by Rochelle Smith and Sharon L. Jones presents a diverse collection of readings that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, speeches, and songs, as well as paintings and photography. Students learn about historical context, literary content and rhetorical strategies - their distinctions and connections."

"Welcome to the club! And our latest adventures in U.K. Club Land where we continue our exploration of the 'Club Beat' - the roots of Mod, R&B and Soul - that coalesced in the bohemian melting pot of Soho, London, post WW2. In this chapter we explore the timeless sound of foot-stomping Gospel music as heard throughout the UK underground Rare Soul scene, both as current productions and as 1950's R&B-tinged rarities that form the playlist of our original 25-track compilation"--Publisher's website.