American - African American & Black
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Buck Studies
$15.95 Add to cart“[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place.”–The Los Angele
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0986437379
- Language: English
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Chosen Poems: Old and New
$17.99 Add to cartChosen Poems is also, Lorde says, “a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited.” Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Citie… [more below]
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 039330017X
- Language: English
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Black Venus Fly Trap
$18.00 Add to cartA shocking debut poetry collection that invites readers to grapple with the origins of a world that both hates and needs Black women. A disruptive hagiography of the Black Venus & Sapphire, mammy bull
- Author: Rich, Jeanetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: June 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1736210424
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
$5.99 Add to cartPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513277413
- Language: English
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The Black Maria
$16.00 Add to cartTimely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683022
- Language: English
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Prime: Poetry & Conversation
$16.95 Add to cartPrime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a necessity as the historically well-indexed canon of white quee… [more below]
- Author: Holnes, Darrel Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1937420736
- Language: English
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Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations, and Other Magic
$10.00 Add to cartA call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predom… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Atena O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1558968881
- Language: English
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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Mother Body
$16.00 Add to cartMother Body is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As Mother Body unfolds, it tasks its reader to understand the expected and … [more below]
- Author: Forde, Diamond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1947817248
- Language: English
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attraversiamo
$14.95 Add to cartATTRAVERSIAMO, Monique Ferrell’s third collection of poetry, is an examination of a life in progress. It includes twenty-seven new poems that focus on the importance and impact of living within a skin… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1630450219
- Language: English
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Hollywood Forever
$17.95 Add to cartHoliday curates poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and activism. The “legacies” of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday and other icons collide, harnessing taboos they upheld triumphant
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0986437301
- Language: English
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A Body Tangled in Time: A Tapestry of Self-Love and Shadow Work
$18.00 Add to cartIn A Body Tangled in Time, Nastashia Minto honors the process of sitting with, in, and around the trauma imprinted in her body. Through poetry, song, and story, she detangles herself from skewed self-
- Author: Minto, Nastashia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0997749172
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal
$19.95 Add to cartFollowing the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale’s wor… [more below]
- Author: Tisdale, Celes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018941
- Language: English
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Freedom Knows My Name: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartFreedom Knows My Name takes readers on a poetic journey of seeking collective and personal freedom as a Black woman. By scanning the QR code on the back of the book, readers are transported to the aut
- Author: Harris-Deberry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: August 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1883275296
- Language: English
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Trouble the Water
$17.00 Add to cartProfound, lyric poems interrogate what it means to be fully human as a “queer, black body” in 21st century America.
- Author: Austin, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683049
- Language: English
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A Shiver in the Leaves
$17.00 Add to cartNestled against the backdrop of Seattle’s flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes’ debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from t… [more below]
- Series: New Poets of America
- Author: Hughes, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774678
- Language: English
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Witch Wife
$17.95 Add to cart“Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician’s command of atmosphere.”
—The New York Times, “The Best Poetry of 2017”Witch Wife is back in a brand new paperback editi
- Author: Petrosino, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1956046100
- Language: English
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On the Black Hand Side: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartOn the Black Hand Side is a collection of poems about black life, love, and justice. Coleman is engaged in the project of showing that black people’s humanity, and their lives, matter. His work is a j
- Author: Coleman, Gerald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1087868599
- Language: English
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Cruel/Cruel
$17.95 Add to cartA response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.
CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of … [more below]
- Author: J. Stephens, Dior
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621580
- Language: English
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Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
$18.99 Add to cartGrace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the da… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 1400066107
- Language: English
