The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth has become a classic book among fans of the new movement of poets around the world. The first release from author jessica Care moore, The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth is a thematically, multi-various collage of poems on love and lost, relationships, racism, sexism, and identity that says: "..we exist, yes we do. It's a fact." In the words of editor Tony Medina, this collection is full of tom-boy muscle and tender sister love caresses. She coos and curses and condems- all in one breath, all in one poem, one book.
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Jessica is knocking down the walls of the opium dens in this distant town called poetry. " -- Mos Def, Actor and Emcee
Like Jayne Cortez before here, this is her mouth on paper,her refusal to swallow her silence. -- Tony Medina, Editor, Poet and Professor
Like Jayne Cortez before here, this is her mouth on paper,her refusal to swallow her silence. -- Tony Medina, Editor, Poet and Professor
About the Author
jessica Care moore is one of the most celebrated poets of her generation. The Detroit native received international acclaim after making history at the famous Apollo Theater, wining a record five weeks in a row. She has gone on to read and perform her poetry around the US and Europe,including Berlin, France, Scotland, Holland and England. She is one of the returning stars of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She has shared stages with legendary artists, such as, Geoge Clinton, Roy Ayers, The Last Poets, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and many others. She is the author of several theater shows, Alphaphobia, There are no Asylums For the Real Crazy Women and The Revolutions and The Ladies Room.
Her work has been featured on the PBS documentary, I'll Make Me a World, Slamnation, Slam and Hughes Dream Harlem. This rennaissance woman is also the star of the independent film, His/Herstory. She is working on her first music project.
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MY INSPIRATION,
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THIS BOOK IS TRULY EXCEPTIONAL. JESSICA IS A TRULY BLESSED PERSON. SHE HAS INSPIRED MY LIFE. THERE ARE POEMS IN THIS BOOK THAT MADE ME LOOK AT MY LIFE IN A DIFFERENT,MORE POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE. SHE TOUCHES ON ISSUES LIKE MULTICULTURISM, PREJUDICE WITH IN THE BLACK RACE, AND LOVING BLACK MEN. JESSICA CARE MOORE IS A DIVA AND LOVE HER.PEACE AND BLESSINGS MASAANI
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As a poet, I would like to thank Jessica Care Moore for being the one woman amongst the Blackwomen poets to take her love and anger, and paint a mural of respect for the spoken word artist. As a Black male poet, I feel that it is poets like her that enables other artists to "school" the masses on the wrong doings of all evil entities that are devouring the Black race. Keep Building On my Sister, for one day Chicago, Detroit, New York and the cities alike will feel what we are doing and it is just not performing. Thanks for the reading at Chicago State University.
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Moore blows up the spot with her poetry! She speaks her mind and speaks it well. Her nonchalant attitude towards political correctness makes her thoughts more outrageous and vivid. The next Sanchez is on her way, so move!!!
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No matter the chatter of rogues dressed in high priest gear, constantly wastin gair space and paper whining about how poetry should be divorced from politics (from reality), any poet worth their weight in syllables and words uses poetry for certain reasons, be it to define yourself, to defend yourself, or to describe your environment with accuracy, communicating a clear under standing of what is going on in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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No matter the chatter of rogues dressed in high priest gear, constantly wastin gair space and paper whining about how poetry should be divorced from politics (from reality), any poet worth their weight in syllables and words uses poetry for certain reasons, be it to define yourself, to defend yourself, or to describe your environment with accuracy, communicating a clear under standing of what is going on in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
girl juice, care moore, last poet New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Peter Pan (Storyteller Book) on page 134
- Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines on page 134
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