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and the highest level of literary craftsmanship

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This is not hyperbole on the part of the author

where she convenes the Master of Creative Writing

leaning on patriarchal methods of survival in order to succeed

Teahouse of the Almighty BUS077000 and the highest level ofA 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