Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith has authored seven books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2015, she released Gotta Go Gotta Flow, a collaboration with Michael Abramson's photographs of Chicago's South Side juke joints. Her new book, Incendiary Art, is just out from Northwestern University Press.
A poem from our 18th Southern Music Issue: Visions of the Blues.
I’m talking about the man at 80—trickling Jheri curl ol skool
now razored down or just plain fell out to make way for sparse
and stubbled silver, his smile an improvidence of gold and rot
