Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
Writing poems and keeping journal since 1991, Jill Scott now shares her personal poetry collection in The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours. Praised for her earthy, honestly erotic, soulful and very real lyrics, Jill Scott explores all the flavors of life, love, and self.\ Of her music, Jill offers: "It's music. It's experiences. It's vulnerability. It's honesty. It's being a woman—-an African American woman. Being a daughter, a sister, a grandchild and a Godmother. It's life. It's deeper than...
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Platinum-plus selling and Grammy nominated artist Jill Scott presents her first ever poetry collection—-delivering the sweet, sultry and soulfully honest voice that fans know and love.Publishers WeeklyWith a couple of platinum-selling "neo-soul" records to her name, Scott doesn't have much to prove, but offers this cull from a parallel life-the poetry she's written on and off, with varying degrees of public exposure, since middle school-in the hopes that poets everywhere will "continue to insight, ignite, and recite this blessed, raunchy, wild ride of a craft." The book reads like an ecstatic but disciplined panoply of influence and inspiration. Love poems, break-up poems, short-of-money poems, weariness poems, Christian poems, celebratory poems: all have an immediacy and short-lined honesty that reflects a deep appreciation of everyone from Nikki Giovanni to Emily Dickinson (just two of the poets mentioned in Scott's introduction). Better than the average coffeehouse fare, the poems probably would not have seen print without the records. That won't bother fans, and it shouldn't bother readers who come upon them not knowing who Scott is, and enjoy the poems anyway. (June) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Across your bread1The last time3Potty trained4The downfall of a North Philly freak5Young Buck lovin on the kitchen floor6Kings at clubs?7Pocket size #18The sound of your name9He says10Radio blues12It's the little things13Pocket size #414Pocket size #515Old school lovin'16Caution17Agape18Untitled #1 (love sucks)19Pocket size #820Dis niggah (for Leslie)21Blue22Selfish23Revolutionary man24Haiku #626One second of warped security27Nothing is for nothing28Haiku #133Haiku #234Haiku #335Haiku #436Haiku #537Lab animal (from inside the cage to you)41Searching42Little man in a box (Catholicism)45Pocket size #348My life49Life50Pink man's redemption51Untitled53Untitled #254Untitled #3 (in progress)56I forgive you57Space58Why rape60Envy65Perms, hot combs, and curlers66When the women gather67Mrs. Bird69Independent women (for Gia)72Independent women (for Gia too)74Let it out76Stacia78Young Miss Russell80The addiction (for one of the bravest women I will ever know)81Duafe84Duafe series #286Today 4/4/00 (my birthday)87My mother loves me88Tree like she (for grandmothers everywhere)90Carried away92One of the reasons (for the hoe on the corner)93The truth about Annana96Pocket size #2101Sarcasm and the woman poet102How to104Untitled (listen)105One little hope106I will write107Words108A poet's home110Haiku #7112To my new lover (written on March 27, 1993)113$8 seat (poetry night)114We the people117Music118Once upon a time120The what-ifs122
\ Publishers WeeklyWith a couple of platinum-selling "neo-soul" records to her name, Scott doesn't have much to prove, but offers this cull from a parallel life-the poetry she's written on and off, with varying degrees of public exposure, since middle school-in the hopes that poets everywhere will "continue to insight, ignite, and recite this blessed, raunchy, wild ride of a craft." The book reads like an ecstatic but disciplined panoply of influence and inspiration. Love poems, break-up poems, short-of-money poems, weariness poems, Christian poems, celebratory poems: all have an immediacy and short-lined honesty that reflects a deep appreciation of everyone from Nikki Giovanni to Emily Dickinson (just two of the poets mentioned in Scott's introduction). Better than the average coffeehouse fare, the poems probably would not have seen print without the records. That won't bother fans, and it shouldn't bother readers who come upon them not knowing who Scott is, and enjoy the poems anyway. (June) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher"Jill Scott's fans will enjoy...her defiant and vulnerable poems."—-Essence\ "Love that's tough and hard and has to be earned and paid for every step of the way is the stuff of Scott's soulful poetry. We look forward to her next book. She knows how to write." —-Rocky Mountain News\ "Like her music—soulful, erotic, and honest—Scott's collection of previously unpublished poetry delivers the goods." —-Uptown Magazine\ "Jill Scott can now add the title 'author' to her list of accomplishments." —-Philadelphia Daily News\ \ \
