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The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott |  | Author: Jill Scott
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Edition: 1st
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0312329628
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
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Product Description
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. Jill Scott's double-platinum debut CD "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1â 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. 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. "Jill Scott's fans will enjoy . . . her defiant and vulnerable poems."âEssence
"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."âRocky Mountain News
"Like her musicâsoulful, erotic, and honestâScott's collection of previously unpublished poetry delivers the goods."âUptown Magazine
"Jill Scott can now add the title 'author' to her list of accomplishments."âPhiladelphia Daily News
Table of Contents
I. All the Evil and All the Love
Across Your Bread
The Last Time
Potty Trained
The Downfall of a North Philly Freak
Young Buck Lovinâ on the Kitchen Floor
Kings at Clubs?
Pocket Size #1
The Sound of Your Name
He Says
Radio Blues
Itâs the Little Things
Pocket Size #4
Pocket Size #5
Old School Lovinâ
Caution
Agape
Untitled #1 (Love Sucks)
Pocket Size #8
Dis Niggah (for Leslie)
Blue
Selfish
Revolutionary Man
Haiku #6
One Second of Warped Security
Nothing Is For Nothing
II. Haiku
Haiku #1
Haiku #2
Haiku #3
Haiku #4
Haiku #5
III. I Be Thinking
Lab Animal (from Inside the Cage to You)
Searching
Little Man in a Box (Catholicism)
Pocket Size #3
My Life
Life
Pink Manâs Redemption
Untitled
Untitled #2
Untitled #3 (in progress)
I Forgive You
Space
Why Rape
IV. Us Sistahs Sometimes
Envy
Perms, Hot Combs, and Curlers
When the Women Gather
Mrs. Bird
Independent Women (for Gia)
Independent Women (for Gia too)
Let It Out
Stacia
Young Miss Russell
The Addiction (for One of the Bravest Women I Will Ever Know)
Duafe
Duafe Series #2
Today 4/4/00 (My Birthday)
My Mother Loves Me
Tree Like She (for Grandmothers Everywhere)
Carried Away
One of the Reasons (for the hoe on the corner)
The Truth About Annana
V. Poetry 4 Poets and Folks Who Would Like to Be
Pocket Size #2
Sarcasm and the Woman Poet
How To
Untitled (Listen)
One Little Hope
I Will Write
Words
A Poetâs Home
Haiku #7
To My New Lover (Written on March 27, 1993)
$8 Seat (Poetry Night)
We the People
Music
Once Upon a Time
The What-ifs
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 A discovery April 7, 2005
Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States)
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
Jill Scott is a singer and performer, though I have only rarely heard her music. Sonia Sanchez wrote a wonderful encomium for Scott, saying, "I know Jill Scott. She is pot liquor and cornbread. She is caviar and champagne. She is a blues song and a spirtual. She is Nina, Leontyne, Sarah, Aretha." Sanchez' poetry is one of the wonders of the 20th century so I decided to give her protégé a try. It wound up with me liking the book and I imagine many will too. Unlike Sanchez, her subject matter is not very variegated. It's all about love, love, and more love, and then there's some about feminism and black pride. She can compose infinite variations on these three topics, but after awhile you're like, "Oh, not another haiku about crazy love." However in a later section of the book Scott experiments with taking on different personae and these are much stronger. One poem takes the point of view of the adult looking back to days of childhood and realizing her mother loved her.
"She cries when she sees me/ holds me close when she knows I need me/ "Mommy" I say/ "Mommy" I say/ Smells so good/ Reminds me to go out and play/ makes me strawberry lemonade."
The sights and sounds of ordinary life are wistfully accounted for, almost as though she wasn't a star and just Jill from the block you might say. There's another poem that alludes to the pain of having lost a child, rather like Joni Mitchell's poignant "Little Green." And the best of all she speaks from the perspective of a roughened, overworked street prostitute with a broken soul whose age becomes the turning point of the poem's final, shocking lines. In her preface, Scott gives credit to her forebears, including Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. This poem "One of the Reasons" will remind readers of some of the soliloquy poems of Sapphire.
Exceptional Read.. April 20, 2005
Honey (Heaven)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this book of heartfelt poems at a recent Jill Scott concert. I started reading it the next day and found I was taking a ride on an express train to expressionisms! She's not only a talented singer and performer, but also a very gifted and talented writer ...and I am so very happy, she allowed me to step (albeit briefly) into her world of words and glimpse her poetic soul as she lays down layer upon layer of the (3) L's: Love, Life and Loss. She covers the long and short of them all! There is no fluff here...all emotions are accounted for and I promise, you will enjoy the journey just as I have!
Great job Ms. Scott...thanks for sharing a very big part of you, with a very small part of me! Your talent is remarkable!
It's good poetry for where I am in my life July 5, 2005
merlot (Texas)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying I've not studied poetry in depth. I have read Maya Angelou and other things that are required in school and when I took my African American literature and philosophy classes in college. I've gone to spoken word events and I've watched Def Poetry. That said I'm not a true "student" of poetry and I only think about writing my own poetry (it never comes out on paper). I do however keep a journal and one of the main reasons I bought this book is because I'm going through a period in my life where I wanted to read something to uplift me and let me know that love and relationships and all that will all turn out okay (although there are times of sadness). I enjoyed this book and it actually helped me in the sense that it gave me some thoughts of things to explore as I wrote in my journal. I read in another poetry book that I bought at the same time that you shouldn't read the poems all at once because it is to be savored like fine chocolates and that poetry/words are the same so I didn't even attempt to read it all at once but what I've read so far is good (for me) and if you like Jill, are a black woman or appreciate poetry then I think this is a nice book to have. It probably makes a nice gift too.
No suprise, Jill Scott's poetry is beautifully lyrical. April 29, 2005
BMAR (Northern USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you love the music of Jill Scott for its beautifully personal and uplifting content, you'll simply devour these nearly 150 pages of her poems.
Jill has often said that she's kept written journals for years. As many of Jill's song lyrics read like poems to me (and I dearly love them), I was not surprised to find myself deeply engrossed in Jill's accounts of life and love in this compilation.
Jill's writings unapologetically hold love up and examine, admire and venerate it. Her poems also touch on issues of friendship and family.
I've known since I heard the first song from her very first album that Jill was not just another singer, but a poet who happens to possess and beautiful voice and undeniable music talent. Now she is not only an accomplished poet, but a published one. It speaks so highly of her talent and her very nature that the likes of Sonia Sanchez and Maya Angelou have recognized the power of her gift and her loving, intelligent spirit.
Never a big fan of audio books, I'm dying for the audio version of this collection!!!
simply beautiful... April 9, 2005
O. Gray (Connecticut, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
this book of poetry offers a glimpse into jill scott's beautiful and soulful life. full of poetry about love, loss, life and even the beauty salon, it's a great springtime lounging read!
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