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. 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.Ī poet says what kicks, festers, eats at, drives, elates, stuns and saddens inside the mind, body and spirit. Better than the average coffeehouse fare, the poems probably would not have seen print without the records.
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). 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.
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