American - African American & Black
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
$16.95 Read moreIn his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire an… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Blount, Tommye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588497
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
$24.95 Read moreThe definitive guide to a major African American poet
This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton’s unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in Ameri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hernton, Calvin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500364
- Language: English
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Forest Primeval: Poems
$22.00 Read moreWinner, 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Winner, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category
Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize
Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exc- Author: Francis, Vievee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0810132435
- Language: English
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Apocrifa
$16.95 Read moreapocrifa imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, ro… [more below]
- Author: Flame, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1636280633
- Language: English
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Cardinal
$16.00 Read moreTyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”– the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed… [more below]
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595735
- Language: English
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To Be Named Something Else
$19.95 Read moreNamed one of New York Public Library’s Best Books, 2023
Winner, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeTo Be Named Something Else is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage–both famili
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Phenix, Shaina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262286
- Language: English
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Bastards of the Reagan Era
$15.95 Read moreBastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear “the sound that comes from al… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1935536656
- Language: English
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Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
$15.95 Read moreGreat American writers–William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James–all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reprod… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229777
- Language: English
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Finna: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular–its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its inti… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593132459
- Language: English
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Incendiary Art: Poems
$22.00 Read moreWinner, 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- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0810134330
- Language: English
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Antebellum Dream Book
$14.00 Read moreIn surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisational
- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 155597354X
- Language: English
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Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black
$18.95 Add to cart“Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney’s resilience and ingenuity … [more below]
- Series: Wick First Book
- Author: Keizer, Arlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 160635468X
- Language: English
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Dark Testament: And Other Poems
$15.95 Read moreThere has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her n… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Pauli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 163149483X
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$27.00 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
Formerl
The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593557085
- Language: English
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American Scapegoat
$17.95 Add to cartAmerican Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America’s neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper con
- Author: Surin, Enzo Silon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570503
- Language: English
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
$35.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603766
- Language: English
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Golden Ax
$18.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
“Outstanding . . . the poetr
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Cortez, Rio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0143137131
- Language: English
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Grocery Shopping with My Mother
$24.00 Read more“Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country’s oppression through the generational wounds surviv… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767439
- Language: English
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Remedies for Disappearing
$17.00 Read moreA collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an … [more below]
- Author: Patrick, Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599131
- Language: English
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Bread and Circus
$26.00 Read more“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 166801145X
- Language: English
