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Way of the Asshole
Aaron Smith is a stand-up comedian, writer, and an unofficial sociologist. Born and raised in the Harlem section of Manhattan, in New York City, he is the eldest of two children. Aaron brings his point of view to light and shows you how it can be used in your everyday life. His blunt and sometimes harsh honesty tells it how it is and shows that many people like to hide from the ugly truth. He provides a way of being someone out of the ordinary and a lifestyle that some have but never go the whole nine yardsThe Way Of The Asshole. It is more than just a name for calling someone or saying to someone when you dont agree with them. Maybe just call yourself one because you think its cool. Being an asshole is more than just saying it, you have to be about it. You must live, breathe, eat and sleep it in everything you do. And this is a start in the right direction.
The Book of Daniel
A tour de force, Aaron Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, The Book of Daniel, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art, sex, and grief. Part pop-thriller, part queer rage, and part mourning, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon, his mother’s incurable cancer diagnosis, gay bashing, celebrity gossip, bigotry, violence on TV, and Alexander McQueen’s suicide, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned, with his characteristic blend of directness, vulnerability and humor, these poems take on the world as it is, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy.
The Art of Sarcasm
Aaron Smith returns with his second entry entitled "The Art Of Sarcasm" This picks up where "Way Of The Asshole" left off. Using satarical humor. Mr. Smith enables the reader to utilze there talents within by using banter and witty puns that some may have not known even existed. Sarcasm has been put out in many forms but Aaron does it in a way that is not only funny but enlightening. it is a true hilarious take on life, love and all in between.
Primer
In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief? Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable tension between what we say and how we actually feel, exposing the complications of intimacy and the limitations of language to bridge those distances between friends, family members, and lovers. What we deny, in the end, may be just what we actually survive. Mortality in Smith's work remains the uncomfortable foundation at the center of our relationship with others, to faith, to art, to love as we grow older, and ultimately, to our own sense of who we are in our bodies in the world. The struggle of this book, finally, is in naming whether just what we say we want is enough to satisfy our primal needs, or are the choices we make to stay alive the same choices we make to help us, in so many small ways, to die.
Meditations of a Hedge Fund Manager
Packed with divine wisdom and practical application, Smith has condensed years of experience and study of ancient, sacred texts into twelve brilliant and highly concentrated meditations. Few things shift one's paradigm like the truths housed in this book. What is my purpose? How do I find meaning in the daily grind? Is there a creative power at work in the universe? These questions and more will be answered in Meditations of a Hedge Fund Manager. Meditations will help you: -Find tremendous inspiration at work, regardless of your current job -Position yourself for breakthrough -Enjoy provision for all your needs and an overflow for every good work -Learn key leadership skills to excel in any context -Unlock financial principles for world-changing wealth creation -Access a lifestyle of abundance, rest and total freedomLive the abundant life you were made for! Experience prosperity & purpose as you navigate Meditations of a Hedge Fund Manager.
Blue on Blue Ground
Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. These artful, yet accessible poems are concerned with the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession—how what we want redeems and isolates us. They urge complete exploration of one’s physical and mental selves as a means to remain alive in the material world.
Shanti Bloody Shanti
Journalist Aaron Smith never planned to go to India before he had a contract put on his life by a drug dealer, when suddenly India seemed like the perfect place to get lost. In the process, he ended up finding himself, as well as encountering a dead body or two, witnessing the tragic death of a friend, dodging terrorist attacks and a revolution, and befriending a colorful cast of characters. Pulling no punches, this Gonzo-styled, page-turning Indian adventure has pathos, self-deprecation, and a wicked sense of humor. It provides a raw, honest, and amusing appraisal of traveling through contemporary India.
The Mitzvah
When John Greenwood, a Catholic priest from Chicago -- and a liberal "child of the 60s" -- suddenly learns that he's a Jewish Holocaust orphan, he asks desperately, what does that make him? Is he Catholic or Jewish? American or German? Father Greenwood plunges into a adventuresome search for identity and for truth. Who is right, his pacifist mentors, or his newfound family, some of whom died fighting Hitler? His mind spins as his struggle to find answers, for himself, his foster parents, his real family, and his long lost love, plays out against a background of real events in America and the world today. Everything he ever knew and believed is on trial. Tension builds to a surprise ending in Israel. 245 pages.
Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language
The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of ergative languages. The next three contributions successively investigate the grammaticalization of Greek postural verbs, Spanish third person pronouns, and American Sign Language topicalization constructions. The two following papers report on usage-based phonological studies of Spanish /s/ and /d/, respectively. The book concludes with four papers that address usage-based effects concerning the grammatical status of ain’t in African American English, Spanish verbs of “becoming”, and English lexis and prefabs. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience of functional and cognitive linguistic researchers.
Odyssey
The journey to the sporting world's grandest stage - the Super Bowl - is often wrought with overwhelming obstacles, personal challenges, and a workload that would make most men cringe. No one understands this more than Marc Edwards, whose winding road from blue collar Norwood, Ohio to the NFL and ultimately the Super Bowl was littered with derailing pot holes. How Marc became a successful family man and an old-school battering ram of a Super Bowl champion should no longer be a mystery. Odyssey: From Blue Collar, Ohio to Super Bowl Champion chronicles Marc's personal quest for something great and how a cast of family members and behind-the-scenes family friends helped to keep him on track. Freelance writer and former award-winning newspaper sports editor Aaron M. Smith takes the reader on an intriguing ride through the rigors and joys of transforming from a third-grader with a dream to a captain at legendary Notre Dame and eventually to the starting backfield for the world champion New England Patriots. Marc's struggles and eventual triumph will serve as inspiration and offer proof that you most certainly can do anything you want if you simply put in the effort.
