The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours
The Poetry of Jill Scott
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4.8 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
ill 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
Incredible.
It’s just everything Jill is. I could audibly hear her reading each page, as I read. Love every word of this.
The Real Jill
It was a expression of naked truth. Very real and gut gritty tellings of sexy love. Don’t hear it like this very often. Speaks to the thoughts of a true artist laid bare.
A Haiku To Life
A poet says what kicks, festers, eats at, drives, elates, stuns and saddens inside the mind, body and spirit. A poet has the gift of condensing an entire experience, a life, into a few quiet but powerful words, words that speak to us, the audience, the reader, as if they were spoken only to each of us alone.
Jill Scott has these abilities and more as this gift of her poetry so amply illustrates. She allows us the privilege of being with her as a child, looking up to a mother who loved her unconditionally even though she had to struggle to raise her, as a woman trying to be what she thought men wanted her to be while denying who she was, as someone doing what needed to be done to put a roof over her head and as an individual so much in love with the written word that she was able to achieve success both as a poet and a singer of deeply moving emotions.
I read this book in one sitting. It was not just itchily addicting but possessed a velvet glove that could just as easily reach into your guts and twist them.