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December 15, 2008: Jaki Shelton Green: Breath of the Song (poetry):”North Carolina’s Billie Holiday…a relentless belief that love and ancestry always prevail over heartache…that language, above all, is a sacrament.” Joseph Bathanti
Carolina Wren Press: Jaki Shelton Green
Poet Jaki Shelton Green Selected As First Piedmont Laureate
Books
Breath of the Song: New And Selected Poems by Jaki Shelton Green (Carolina Wren Press)
A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.
Conjure Blues: Poems by Jaki Shelton Green (Carolina Wren Press)
I have not known your face as woman my first born/my first one/my
new self I am learning to speak in whole sentences learning not to
speak always in the mother tongue we are learning that we can be
sisters that we can open the curtains together that we can each call
morning something else...
With characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Jesse
Helms (who appears in a dream), unborn children, past loves, and
ancestors whose spells endure, these poems are alive, rooted in the
South, and infused with magic.
Dead On Arrival by Jaki Shelton Green (Carolina Wren Press)
Green's acclaimed premier book reissued.
Green's earlier works pulse with the intoxicating rhythms and fierce
clarity of image that made her one of North Carolina's most popular
poets. Here is an artist at turns angry and wickedly funny,
demanding justice yet possessed of a refined grace.
Singing a Tree into Dance (Carolina Wren Press Poetry Chapbooks,) by Jaki Shelton Green (Carolina Wren Press)
A special edition poetry chapbook in celebration of Jaki Shelton
Green's receipt of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature.
Contains 8 new poems, including "Lifting Veils" dated 9/11/2001, and
the long poem entitled "bring me your breasts."