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The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems Binding:Hardcover and the Medici Book ClubLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last. Danez Smith, The Guardian A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard (Poetry Foundation). The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential work from across Patricia