American - African American & Black
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Maafa
$18.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.
Maafa is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194438023X
- Language: English
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River Hymns
$15.00 Read more“Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new ways to think about family and community, new ways to w
- Series: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0983300852
- Language: English
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Florida Water: Poems
$24.95 Add to cartInspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reveal, and unravel us.
An honest meditation on migrating to South
- Author: Monet, Aja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1642599670
- Language: English
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Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
$16.99 Read moreFor fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King’s raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human “curse to feel.” Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of lov… [more below]
- Author: King Holmes, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480950
- Language: English
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Bellocq’s Ophelia
$17.00 Read moreSelected as a “2003 Notable Book” by the American Library Association
In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1555973590
- Language: English
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The New Black
$15.95 Read moreA profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012)
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrat
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 081957287X
- Language: English
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The Absurd Man: Poems
$15.95 Read moreInspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867412
- Language: English
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867773
- Language: English
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Prelude to Bruise
$16.00 Read morePraise for Saeed Jones:
“Jones is the kind of writer who’s more than wanted: he’s desperately needed.”—FlavorWire “This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should.” —ElevenEleven- Author: Jones, Saeed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1566893747
- Language: English
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Funeral Diva
$16.95 Read moreFuneral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
“Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,
- Author: Sneed, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868117
- Language: English
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City of Bones: A Testament
$24.95 Read moreAs if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitut
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0810134624
- Language: English
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The 100 Best African American Poems [With CD (Audio)]
$24.99 Read moreA collection of classic and contemporary poems by Black authors selected by New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni.
Immerse yourself in the heart and soul of African Americ
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402221118
- Language: English
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
$16.00 Read more“Wilson’s collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.” ―Publishers Weekly Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collect… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Keith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1556595611
- Language: English
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Patter
$17.95 Add to cartFor a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents’ faces, where does that vio
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 159709580X
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
$7.95 Add to cartBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Re… [more below]
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2010
- ISBN10: 048647593X
- Language: English
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The New Testament
$17.00 Add to cartJericho Brown ushers the body from political and religious battlegrounds, employing the rhythms of sexuality and spirituality to protest oppression.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1556594577
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartMemento Mori is a meditation on mortality, change and loss. Rather than being simply somber, this volume observes our human condition through a poetic kaleidoscope, with glimpses of irony and humor th… [more below]
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1948585022
- Language: English
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The Study of Human Life
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award
An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addr- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136828
- Language: English
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Digest
$15.95 Read moreFrom Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we expe… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Series Selections
- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1935536508
- Language: English
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Previously Owned
$17.95 Read moreIn his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker’s American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owne… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: McClain, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245262
- Language: English
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