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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
$15.00 Read moreA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539359
- Language: English
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Hold What Makes You Whole
$19.99 Add to cartRest like the sun does:
Schedule some time
to stay out of sight
when too many people
praise warm energy …
THE BOOK.
Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker‘s (he/him) tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole, is a pock
- Author: Amaker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734673729
- Language: English
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People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity
$16.99 Read moreIn People Not Things: Love Poems for Humanity, Genesis Be offers a strikingly honest yet hopeful snapshot of her journey as a queer Black woman in America fighting for the humanity of her community.
P- Author: Be, Genesis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1524884812
- Language: English
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Kingdom Animalia
$17.00 Add to cartThis highly anticipated second collection is the winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 193441462X
- Language: English
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Muse Found in a Colonized Body
$17.95 Read moreIn the book’s eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, “How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?” Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhe
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Montilla, Yesenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245327
- Language: English
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Salt Body Shimmer
$18.00 Add to cartLyrical and rife with utterance, Salt Body Shimmer asks of the violence we inherit: who speaks from “the threshold throat” inside “the dark’s dark”? Interior driven and intimately political, the poems
- Author: Foreman, Aricka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919753
- Language: English
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C?saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #63
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868702
- Language: English
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Or, on Being the Other Woman
$17.95 Add to cartIn or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal nar… [more below]
- Author: White, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018461
- Language: English
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Reparations Now!
$16.00 Add to cartReparations Now! asks for what’s owed.
In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the Unit
- Author: Jones, Ashley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 193823586X
- Language: English
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Date of Birth: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Shawn R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0892555696
- Language: English
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Bloodstone Cowboy
$10.00 Add to cartKara Jackson’s Bloodstone Cowboy is a reclamation of her lineage, an affirmation of self, and a declaration of her right to contain multitudes. These poems from the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate c… [more below]
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Jackson, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642591521
- Language: English
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Commissions Y Corridos: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartHakim Bellamy’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mex
- Series: The Albuquerque Poet Laureate
- Author: Bellamy, Hakim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826363172
- Language: English
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Dangerous Goods
$16.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD
From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as “transcendent” by Kevin Young and “steadily confident” by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker througho
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1571314571
- Language: English
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A Fire in the Hills
$22.00 Add to cartIn A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Afaa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 163628082X
- Language: English
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Render Me Bountiful: A Collection of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartRender Me Bountiful is a collection of poetry that was written to fill your entire mind, body, and spirit with a new breath of life. You are at once captivated by the poetry’s potent truth and honesty… [more below]
- Author: Yarborough, Pamela K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 197726042X
- Language: English
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Hawk
$19.95 Add to cartHawk is a magnificent long-form poem analogizing flight into space with freedom. First published in 1957, these new editions (paperback and hardcover facsimile) mark the first time Hawk is widely avai… [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1638040915
- Language: English
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Bicycles: Love Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of n
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0061726494
- Language: English
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Zero to Three: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWhat started out as a way to address dealing with parenting and, in particular, fatherhood, became a series of poems focused on familial roles and situations that are difficult to articulate, even amo… [more below]
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Brown, F. Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347272
- Language: English
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I Hope She Finds This
$22.99 Read moreA care package, left by r.h. Sin, found by you.
From New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, comes a care package of two new poetry and prose collections boxed together in an elegant slipcase.Aut
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1524871133
- Language: English
