Stevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time

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The Fire Next Time Stevie Smith was not onlyWe, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating