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Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection, and Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. A professor for the City University of New York and a Cave Canem faculty... show more



Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection, and Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. A professor for the City University of New York and a Cave Canem faculty member, she lives in New Jersey with her husband, Edgar Award–winning novelist Bruce DeSilva, her granddaughter Mikaila, and two humungous dogs, Brady and Rondo.

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Patricia Smith's Books
Blood Dazzler - Patricia Smith Teahouse of the Almighty - Patricia Smith Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah - Patricia Smith Compassion Satisfaction:: 50 Steps to Healthy Caregiving - Patricia Smith HBJ Language Practice Workbook Grade 4 -... HBJ Language Practice Workbook Grade 4 - Karen S. Kutiper, Patricia Smith Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tell Beit Mirsim - Sara Ben-Arieh, Patricia Smith, Sara Ben-Arieh Liberalism & Affirmative Obligation - Patricia Smith Poems from My Heart - Patricia Smith I Never Learned to Scream - Patricia Smith His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by Her ... His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by Her - Mahogany L. Browne, Patricia Smith HYSTERIA: Writing the Female Body - E. K... HYSTERIA: Writing the Female Body - E. Kristin Anderson, Rita Dove, Lynn Melnick, Francesca Lia Block, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lesléa Newman, Kia Groom, Ivy Alvarez, Dena Rash Guzman, Allison Joseph, Christine Heppermann, Alison Townsend, Natasha Trethewey, Gayle Brandeis, Sheila Squillante, Amber Flame, Erika HBJ Language: Home Activity Workbook Gra... HBJ Language: Home Activity Workbook Grade 4 - Dorothy S. Strickland, Patricia Smith, Richard F. Abrahamson, Nancy L. Roser, Roger C. Farr, Nancy R. McGee, Karen S. Kupiter Bedford Anthology of World Literature Bo... Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 1 and Book 3 and Book 6 - Paul B. Davis, Gary Harrison, David M. Johnson, Patricia Smith, John F. Crawford Patricia Smith Performs: Always in the H... Patricia Smith Performs: Always in the Head and Selected Poems - Patricia Smith Freedom To Speak National Poetry Slam 2002 - Patricia Smith, Debora Marsh, Scott Woods The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic - Idrissa Simmonds, Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, Patricia Smith HBJ Language: Practice Workbook Grade 8 ... HBJ Language: Practice Workbook Grade 8 - Dorothy S. Strickland, Patricia Smith, Richard F. Abrahamson, Nancy L. Roser, Roger C. Farr, Nancy R. McGee, Karen S. Kutiper L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems - Kevin Coval, Patricia Smith Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice - Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, Patricia Smith Antique Collector Dolls - Patricia Smith Antique Collector Dolls - Patricia Smith
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The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic - Idrissa Simmonds, Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, Patricia Smith
HYSTERIA: Writing the Female Body - E. K... HYSTERIA: Writing the Female Body - E. Kristin Anderson, Rita Dove, Lynn Melnick, Francesca Lia Block, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lesléa Newman, Kia Groom, Ivy Alvarez, Dena Rash Guzman, Allison Joseph, Christine Heppermann, Alison Townsend, Natasha Trethewey, Gayle Brandeis, Sheila Squillante, Amber Flame, Erika
Break Free From Emotional Eating: Stop Overeating and Start Losing Weight - Patricia Smith
Blood Dazzler - Patricia Smith
Teahouse of the Almighty - Patricia Smith
Life According to Motown - Patricia Smith
I'm Too Young to Be This Old - Poppy Smith, Patricia Smith
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah - Patricia Smith
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Folding Paper & Spilling Ink
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink rated it 7 years ago
text Black Girl Magic: BreakBeat Poets Volume #2
First and foremost, many thanks go to Haymarket Books for the review copy.Overall this is a really solid collection. It's difficult reviewing collections - there will always be some pieces that speak to you more than others. All in all I'd say about a quarter of the poems absolutely blew me away, ha...
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iola
iola rated it 12 years ago
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I’m Too Young To Be This Old is aimed at older women who want to rediscover their purpose in God in mid-life. I think that I might be a little younger than the target age group for this book, because while some of it resonated, other parts were less relevant. Perhaps we all adjust to mid-life in di...
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learn by going
learn by going rated it 13 years ago
text Blood Dazzler
I wasn't sure about this book at first, and I'm still not crazy about all the personification poems where the hurricane speaks, but by the end of the collection I was sold. I read it in only a few sittings, and it was an upsetting, unsettling and also at times beautiful journey to take. We forget ab...
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learn by going
learn by going rated it 13 years ago
text Life According to Motown
I must say no one can write the sort of sensual poems Smith does. Sensual and sensuous, and not just in terms of sex but dance and murder and living on the streets. The voices and rootedness of these poems are what most draw me to them. The final, titular section or sequence is a stunner.
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