Teahouse of the Almighty

by Smith, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781566891936
• ISBN10: 1566891930
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTN

Summary

"Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings."--E. Ethelbert Miller

Table of Contents

Building Nicole's Mama	1	(3)
Giving Birth to Soldiers	4	(1)
Had the Beat Inevitable	5	(1)
Mississippi's Legs	6	(84)
walloping! magnifying of a guy's anatomy easily	90
Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan Into the Same Poem	10	(3)
The World Won't Wait	13	(2)
Listening at the Door	15	(1)
The End of a Marriage	16	(1)
Boy Dies, Girlfriend Gets His Heart	17	(2)
Dumpsters, Wastebaskets, Shallow Graves	19	(1)
To 3, No One in the Place	20	(2)
Sacrifice	22	(1)
My Million Fathers, Still Here Past	23	(3)
How to Be a Lecherous Little Old Black Man and Make Lots of Money	26	(2)
Hallelujah With Your Name	28	(3)
Little Poetry	31	(1)
Can't Hear Nothing for That Damned Train	32	(1)
Drink, You Motherfuckers	33	(3)
Deltateach	36	(3)
Creatively Loved	39	(1)
Elegantly Ending	40	(2)
Sex and Music	42	(1)
Map Rappin'	43	(4)
In the Audience Tonight	47	(2)
Weapon Ultimate	49	(1)
Scribe	50	(3)
The Circus Is In Town	53	(2)
Her Other Name	55	(3)
Forgotten in All This	58	(2)
Down 4 the Up Stroke	60	(1)
Women Are Taught	61	(3)
Look at 'Em Go	64	(1)
Stop the Presses	65	(1)
What You Pray Toward	66	(2)
What Men Do With Their Mouths	68	(1)
Dream Dead Daddy Walking	69	(1)
Writing Exercise Breathing Outside My Binder	70	(1)
The Thrill Is On	71	(2)
Blues Through 2 Bone	73	(1)
Fireman	74	(2)
Psyche!	76	(2)
Related to the Buttercup, Blooms in Spring	78	(4)
When Dexter King Met James Earl Ray	82	(2)
All His Distressing Disguises	84	(1)
Teahouse of the Almighty	85	(2)
Running for Aretha	87	(2)
When the Burning Begins	89