The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott

by Jill Scott

Overview

Jill Scott's first-ever poetry collection delivers the same earthy, personal, and tell-it-like-it-is voice that fans have grown to know and love. Writing poems and keeping journals since 1991, she shares her personal poetry collection in The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours. Praised for her honestly erotic, soulful and very real lyrics, Jill Scott uncovers the beauty in healing, the comfort of family, and the stunning vitality of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312329624
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	401,059
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Jill Scott's double-platinum debut CD "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1" went on to garner a string of impressive accolades and followed with four critically-acclaimed albums, Experience Jill Scott 826+, Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol 2, Collaborations and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3. She has received two Grammy awards, three Lady of Soul awards, a Soul Train award, a Billboard Music Award and multiple NAACP Award nominations, among many others.

Editorial Reviews

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“Like her music—soulful, erotic, and honest—Scott's collection of previously unpublished poetry delivers the goods.”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

From the Publisher

With 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.

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