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Vice: New and Selected Poems
$22.99 Add to cartCollected here are poems from Ai’s previous five books–Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed–along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues co… [more below]
- Author: Ai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320189
- Language: English
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Far from New York State
$18.95 Add to cartMatthew Johnson’s second poetry volume constructs a space where the rural communities of Upstate, the suburban living of the Lower Hudson Valley, and the metropolitan landscapes of the City are woven
- Author: Johnson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450952
- Language: English
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How to Be Drawn
$27.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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Space2inspire: The Art of Inspiration
$39.99 Add to cartThis book follows the creative journey of Dr. Sian Proctor to orbit with the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission through her art and poetry. It’s a whimsical poetic tale of her becoming the first black female
- Author: Proctor, Sian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1733765425
- Language: English
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All the Blood Involved in Love
$17.00 Read moreMaya Marshall is a formidable emerging poet. With this debut, she joins a vital literary heritage of Black poets whose stewardship rivals their written contributions. Comparable titles: The Black Unic
- Author: Marshall, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596957
- Language: English
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The Stuff of Hollywood
$22.00 Read moreIn The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.
The Stuff of Hollywood is a meditation on the pervasiveness
- Author: Herd, Niki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596960
- Language: English
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we was bois together
$12.00 Add to cartwe was bois together examines identities and belonging through the lenses of Blackness, queerness, and gender non-conforming narratives. The poems act as an homage and an ode to traversing these ident
- Author: Smoot, Kelsey L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: June 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1957840293
- Language: English
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Glance: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGlance, the second collection of poetry by Chanda Feldman, explores the experiences of a Black and white and Jewish American family that moves abroad to find respite from contemporary racial violence.
- Author: Feldman, Chanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182478
- Language: English
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I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood
$18.00 Add to cartFor poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has le… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Clark, Tiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0822965585
- Language: English
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Unsteady
$14.95 Add to cartUNSTEADY, Monique Ferrell’s first full-length collection of poetry and dramatic monologues, is an examination of a life in progress. The verse in this collection delves deeply into such themes as race… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1935520539
- Language: English
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Stop Lying: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartStop Lying is Aaron Smith’s most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of Smith’s mother and how the poet, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed a… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Smith, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967049
- Language: English
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Migration Letters: Poems
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present day
In 55 poems, M- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Keita, M. Nzadi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008079
- Language: English
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Crowded House
$20.00 Read moreLike a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma–her parents and brother fleeing military dictatorship in Somalia–can overlay the present day: “when my husband
- Author: Jama, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1957372052
- Language: English
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The End of the Alphabet
$18.00 Add to cartWith a new introduction by Calvin Bedient
Claudia Rankine’s second poetry collection, The End of the Alphabet, is an inquiry into despair and recovery, selfhood and alienation. Centered on a heroine n
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 080212447X
- Language: English
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
$25.99 Add to cartWalker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the l
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 463
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0156028611
- Language: English
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Worn
$14.95 Add to cartTenderness meets pain meets joy here, offering up the voices of Black folks fostering connection with their children, their lovers, and themselves. Christian’s third collection of poetry takes the rea… [more below]
- Author: Christian, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1951631099
- Language: English
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Mercurochrome
$18.95 Read moreA self-made writer from Black Los Angeles who lived every day with racism, poverty, violence. The triumph is in words that endure. “Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage.” “The Language Beneath
- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 1574231537
- Language: English
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I Love My Love
$14.99 Read moreIn short, poignant verses, Reyna Biddy’s poems explore pain, emotional reckoning, and the power of self-love.
The debut collection from 22-year-old poet Reyna Biddy, I Love My Love tells the story of- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1449486762
- Language: English
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Woke Up No Light: Poems
$28.00 Read moreA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California
woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These a- Author: Mottley, Leila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593319710
- Language: English
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Bound
$18.00 Add to cartBound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn’t defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and… [more below]
- Author: Arriola-Headley, Jubi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0892555785
- Language: English
