American - African American & Black
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A Season in Hell with Rimbaud
$17.00 Read moreIn pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.
The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Pearson, Dustin Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774597
- Language: English
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Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat
$16.95 Add to cartGhost in a Black Girl’s Throat is an honest incantation and a forthright song to women of color grappling with the ever-present horrors and histories of the South.
- Author: Rae, Khalisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 159709885X
- Language: English
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Doppelgangbanger
$16.00 Add to cartIn his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community.
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- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 164259265X
- Language: English
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Teahouse of the Almighty
$17.95 Add to cart“Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.”–E. Ethelbert Miller
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1566891930
- Language: English
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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
$17.99 Add to cartNAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work
From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suic- Author: Shange, Ntozake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1501169947
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations
$5.99 Add to cartOriginally written during his two year imprisonment in Atlanta, The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations is a collection of short thoughts or, impromptu poetry, from one of the Fathers of
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1513137719
- Language: English
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Watchnight
$17.95 Add to cartIn WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.
In exhilarati… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Cyree Jarelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1643621947
- Language: English
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The Third Renunciation
$18.95 Add to cartHeeding St. John Cassian’s call, The Third Renunciation rejects classic depictions of divinity and religious dogma to see God more fully. Each poem begins with a proposition (e.g. “Say God is the musi
- Author: Henry, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450944
- Language: English
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Touch
$15.00 Add to cartHenri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics–a mothe
- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533474
- Language: English
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Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
$17.00 Add to cartA GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS
Henri Cole has been described as a fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generat- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532664
- Language: English
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Haint: poems
$15.00 Add to cartInaugural Publication in the Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature / “Teri Cross Davis has the courage to make this complex experience come to life, to address it, to let her readers kno… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Teri Ellen Cross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 194072404X
- Language: English
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: Poems
$17.95 Add to cartNational Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 1566892996
- Language: English
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Ballast
$18.00 Read moreA poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.
In 1841, the only successful, large-scale … [more below]- Author: Baker, Quenton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599026
- Language: English
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Alt-Nature
$17.95 Read moreTo foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real.
To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and
- Author: Morgan, Saretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1566896975
- Language: English
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We Find Our Way
$16.99 Read more“To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It’s a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wa… [more below]
- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1524873861
- Language: English
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The Black Automaton
$17.00 Read more“Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ‘mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ . . . These poems literally vibrate with Kearney’s precocious intellect and passion. They hum,
- Series: National Poetry Series Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 193420028X
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Chicago
$17.00 Add to cartNamed “Best Chicago Poet” by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City’s hidden history.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Coval, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 160846671X
- Language: English
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Wail Song: Or Wading in the Water at the End of the World
$17.00 Read moreWail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an extended contemplation on being that lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both … [more below]
- Author: Webster, Chaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1939568684
- Language: English
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A brilliant uncertain rebellion
$11.99 Add to cartThis poetry collection is a celebration of self determination and will. It is a declaration of joy and resilience. It is a battle cry and a call to all those who have ever faced unnecessary expectatio
- Author: Ahanu, Dasan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1733050280
- Language: English
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Scar On / Scar Off
$13.99 Add to cartJennifer Maritza McCauley’s ‘Scar On/Scar Off’ is by turns neon-lit and beating, defiant and clashing, searching and struggling, in fistfuls of recognition, in constant pursuit of intersections and du
- Author: McCauley, Jennifer Maritza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0999115200
- Language: English
