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That's My Son There (feat. Patricia Smith)

from The Poets Are Gathering by Benjamin Boone

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NOTE: I will paste information about each poet here under "About This Track." I will paste excerpts from Gene Seymour's liner notes under "Lyrics."

As a BONUS for actually reading these, I will paste some INSIDE INFORMATION in these sections!!!! OK, here is the first entry:

Pulitzer finalist Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of seven books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina which was nominated for a National Book Award; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press. Smith collaborated with the photographer Michael Abramson on the book Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust on Chicago’s South Side From the Seventies (2015). Her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, TriQuarterly, Tin House, the Washington Post, and in both Best American Poetry and Best American Essays.


INSIDE SCOOP - Lee Herrick teaches at a poetry retreat with Smith and introduced Boone to her in 2019. They plan to do a full-length album together in the future.

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Patricia Smith’s “That’s My Son There,” which sets off this Gathering, submits a more plaintive yet just as scalding torrent of protest against the post-Millennial plague of police-related shootings of Black men and women. Boone’s keening, wailing alto melds and augments Smith’s fierce, fiery diction, her verbal riff of “That’s my son/daughter there” gaining momentum and fury with each telling verb, “dangling, caged, splayed, hanging, deposited, crushed, bleeding out...” and the roar of unbearably graphic imagery: “shot to look more animal / shot as kill / shot as prey / shot as solution / shot as conquest / shot as lesson / shot as warning / shot as comeback / shot as payback / shot for sport / shot for history…”

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from The Poets Are Gathering, released October 16, 2020
Patricia Smith (p/n), Benjamin Boone (as), David Aus (pn), Patrick Olvera (b), Ray Moore (d)

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Benjamin Boone Fresno, California

Benjamin Boone is a jazz saxophonist, composer, professor, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18) and the Republic of Moldova (2006). His Origin Records album THE POETRY OF JAZZ was #3 "Best Album of 2018" in the 83rd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll and featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Paris Review, and many others. Websites: BenjaminBoone.com & OriginArts.com ... more

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