American - African American & Black
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Murmur
$17.95 Read moreA poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America.
The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the ques- Author: Barnett, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1637680872
- Language: English
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Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others
$16.95 Add to cartThese sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin.
Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental s
- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281664
- Language: English
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Silver: Poems
$26.00 Read moreRowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.
This beautiful, slender collection–small and weighted like a coin–is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very be- Author: Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611319
- Language: English
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My Specific Awe and Wonder: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartReuben Jackson’s rhythmic and musical poems merge love, beauty, justice, and the lived Black experience in America.
My Specific Awe and Wonder is a collection of new and selected poems Jackson describ
- Author: Jackson, Reuben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691788
- Language: English
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Bread and Circus
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1668011468
- Language: English
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Load in Nine Times: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartFor decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved expl
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094931
- Language: English
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Songs from Under the River: A Poetry Collection of Early and New Work
$18.00 Add to cartWorld renowned performer, top-selling author and two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, Anis Mojgani has combed through out-of-print editions to put together Songs from Under the River.
A best-of coll… [more below]
- Author: Mojgani, Anis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1938912241
- Language: English
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Hurdy-Gurdy
$12.00 Read more“From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we w… [more below]
- Series: CSU Poetry Series #38
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0914946986
- Language: English
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The Selected Shepherd: Poems
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic po… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Shepherd, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948214
- Language: English
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Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
$36.25 Read moreA new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism
Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates i- Author: Clarke, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0810147602
- Language: English
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Tapping Out: Poems
$17.00 Read moreThe relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the arresting backdrop to Nandi Comer’s collection Tapping Out. Mexican freestyle wrestling becomes the … [more below]
- Author: Comer, Nandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0810142090
- Language: English
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Good Dress
$18.00 Add to cartFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, cl… [more below]
- Author: Rogers, Brittany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030833
- Language: English
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A Little Bump in the Earth
$22.00 Read moreThrough invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill–its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.
Tyree Daye’s a little bump in the earth is an act of i
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 155659688X
- Language: English
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2000 Blacks: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explo… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Tolase, Ajibola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967308
- Language: English
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Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters
$18.00 Add to cartThis new collection celebrates the 250th anniversary of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), by gathering the voices of 20 Black female poets to reimagine the work of Phillis Wheatle
- Author: Legros Georges, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986243016
- Language: English
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A Vessel Born to Float: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartPoignant and beautifully examined, poet Yazmin Monét Watkins takes readers on an introspective journey through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, family, self-love, and all things Black Gir… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, Yazmin Monet Monet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1524892564
- Language: English
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Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson
$21.95 Read more- Author: Hairston, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0813198887
- Language: English
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The Hummingbird’s Garden
$15.53 Add to cart“She picks a few For her vibrant garden, With the sound of the Honeybees and Hummingbirds Moving through her mind.” Jill Tyler-Dolan wrote The Hummingbird’s Garden and illustrated both the interior pa
- Author: Tyler-Dolan, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1738919129
- Language: English
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
$25.95 Add to cartThe concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods… [more below]
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006455
- Language: English
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Instructions for the Lovers
$17.95 Read moreA taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.
“Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry c
- Author: Martin, Dawn Lundy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622315
- Language: English
