Teahouse of the Almighty (National Poetry) | 
| Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 90586
Media: Paperback
Pages: 114
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1566891930
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.106
EAN: 9781566891936
ASIN: 1566891930
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
"What power. Smith's poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster."-Marvin Bell
"I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem."-Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judge
From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation's premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade-a National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry's liberating power.
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 It's better than I hoped for... December 6, 2007
Aaron Starkey (Houston, Texas)
I purchased Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty for I had selected her as my concentration poet for a workshop class I was taking. I had been quite fond of Patricia Smith because of her piece "Biting Back", and had a peculiar anticipation when beginning this collection. She didn't let me down at all.
The strength in delivery and tone is undeniably evident in her work. Pieces such as "Her Other Name" hit me with such a convicted presence, that it took multiple reads just to grasp and better understand how well Smith could be both incredibly blunt and fantastically poignant within the very same moment.
If almost for nothing else at all, experiencing the first poem in this collection is worth the price. "Building Nicole's Mama" spits at you raw imagery of truth while making you consider the beauty, power, and responsibility that comes with putting yourself and words down on pages.
If you have never experienced Patricia Smith before, this collection is a very worthy admissions ticket.
 An anthology of dynamic, free-verse poetry that sublimely captures the thrills and dilemmas of the human experience November 5, 2006
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Four-time poetry slam champion Patricia Smith presents Teahouse of the Almighty, an anthology of dynamic, free-verse poetry that sublimely captures the thrills and dilemmas of the human experience. From the sad denouement of the end of a marriage, to the numb shock surrounding a mother of soldiers losing her loved ones to war, to a visualization of Dexter King meeting James Earl Ray, each poem conceptualizes amorphous instants into heavy, tangible feeling. "Down 4 the Up Stroke": But you have poetry, you say. / And if you can tell me what poetry is, / where the line is drawn / between the beauty and the breathing / of breath into something to make it beautiful, / I will claim poetry as my own.
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