Title: The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
Author: Jill Scott
Intended Audience: Older teens and adults
Jill Scott is best known for her Grammy winning, Neo-Soul Album, Who is Jill Scott? which launched her career as a recording artist by going platinum. Her book The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours gives her fans and anyone unfamiliar with her music an alternate glimpse at this talented and sensuous young artist. Her poems, some dating back to her middle school years, exquisitely capture the life of a modern African-American woman, her romance, friendships and religion. Scott’s language is real life but rich with sounds and images.
In this book Scott honors famous poets (Nikki Giovanni and Emily Dickinson) as well as some lesser known. For anyone who thinks that poetry is boring, I challenge them to read one of Scott’s poems. You may raise your eyebrows at some of the themes she pursues but will never think of poetry in the same way again.
A copy of The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott is available in the new nonfiction section (lower level) of the Kewanee Public Library
Reviewed by Jill Gray, Kewanee Public Library, Information Services
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