"“Throughout this anthology, more than 60 other well-known Brooks poems can be read the same way, with lines from ‘The Mother’ and ‘The Bean Eaters’ tripping down the right-hand side of the page. The anthology ends with ‘Non-Brooks Golden Shovels’ and ‘Variations and Expansions on the Form.’ The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Ra ..."
Lucid Dreaming An Explorer's Guide by PatriciaSmith Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2019 by Conscious Living Media ISBN-13: 978-0-578-52846-5, ISBN: 0-578-52846-0
"The word lucid means mentally clear or conscious awareness in a dream. Achieving the awareness of self and the ability to know you are dreaming while dreaming is the official definition of Lucidity. However, there is low lucidity and high lucidity. We want to achieve high lucidity where we can actually control the dream. Not just achieve awareness."
"The SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is six-time Academy Award Winner Billy Wilder's recreation of the struggles and success o Charles A. Lindbergh, the pioneering flyboy who, like test pilots and astronauts to follow later, had he "right stuff" of aviation heroism.
On May 21, 1927, he world changed. "Lucky Lindy" landed outside Paris. People who previously criticized air travel and its limitations now suddenly praised its never-ending possibilit ..."
Snowball Investing Wealth That Won't Retire When You Do by PatriciaSmith Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2018 by Apples Of Gold Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9600785-0-9, ISBN: 0-9600785-0-9
"Is your financial future melting away? When middle-class American Pat Peoples Smith was suddenly faced with a family member’s health crisis, she was confronted with her own crisis: as a single woman, she was unprepared for retirement or any unforeseen health crisis that might come knocking at her door. Snowball Investing traces Pat’s financial footprints as she digs her way out of debt and begins to rebuild her future portfolio one fina ..."
"The Preparation and Trial of Medical Malpractice Cases treats a case as a continuous process, from interviewing the client to closing argument. It offers comprehensive coverage of the questions surrounding health maintenance organizations, including case law on the right to sue an HMO as well as its participating physicians. You'll find discussion of: how to recognize a meritorious case; the doctrine of alternative liability; the eviden ..."
Incendiary Art Poems by PatriciaSmith 112 Pages, Published 2017 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3434-8, ISBN: 0-8101-3434-9
"Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award ..."
Just Friends Based on a True Story by PatriciaSmith Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Mindstir Media ISBN-13: 978-0-9988740-8-1, ISBN: 0-9988740-8-6
"This is not the typical love story of two best friends falling in love by the end of the book.This is the true story of two friends who passionately drove each other to the ground, which becomes typical when both of them have mental issues that involve drugs and alcohol. No one ever tells these stories probably because they’re too messed up to do so."
"What was really at the heart of her altering the signature naija-threaded-style
Mama would coif every morning after she ate a bowl of gaari and fried plantain?
Snickering during lunch was overt. Gangs would laugh at the Nigerian princess.
Chastise tailored African prints fresh from Aba she would rock. Don't knock her
until you've traveled dusty roads in her snakeskin shoes. She straightens to fit in,
hacks away bulwarks. Kitchenett ..."
"The essays in this volume of Honors in Practice run the gamut from assessment to gardening, from hard data to soft earth, from quantitative analysis to experiential learning. The range and depth of this spectrum reflect the multiplicity of perspectives and approaches that honors education offers to its students, its home institutions, and its geographic, cultural, and social contexts. The variety of research and pedagogy in these essays ..."
"Rhythm and Resistance offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels from elementary school to graduate school. Rhythm and Resistance reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice."
"when you squeezed her hand just so, one of those dolls with flat nightmare hair
the color of exploded corn and a dress that glowed and ... to grant her mysticism
and fury, to lock her up in my closet and watch the doorknob all damn night,
waiting for that slow Twilight Zone twist. ... But on Christmas Eve, when I snuck a
peek through my wishing window into the starry, slanted snow and saw Daddy
pull a ..."
"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 ..."