Mbembe: Selected Poems

Poetry. African American Studies. "Mbembe (Milton Smith) was a very fine poet, and he is greatly missed on the contemporary poetry scene. His poems were extremely wellcrafted, sharp-edged, poetic urban snapshots of any city he might find himself in. The language he employed in his poems was on-point, minimal, but always echoed the blues and jazz music that he loved. His time here was brief, but the poems he left us will last."—Quincy Troupe