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Lexicon
$16.95 Add to cartLexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph’s award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. This time around, this self-professed “barefaced woman” is setting her sighs/sights on l
- Author: Joseph, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1597097179
- Language: English
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What Can I Tell You?
$18.00 Add to cartCharting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of anti-Blackness that centers Trans-Atlantic and Latinx Blackness in all its vastness, beauty, and
- Author: Garcia, Roberto Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447643
- Language: English
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Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61
$15.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
2018 American Book Award Winner
2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry
2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #61
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867455
- Language: English
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Speak Low
$15.00 Add to cartSpeak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncomprom
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532168
- Language: English
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Olio
$35.00 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry 2016 National Book Criti- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1940696208
- Language: English
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Negro Mountain
$18.00 Read moreA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.
In the final section of Negro Mountain, C.- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Giscombe, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829715
- Language: English
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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
$16.00 Read moreIn Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in
- Author: Abimbola, Kweku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452278
- Language: English
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Affrilachia: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartA milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, ar… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0967542405
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
$19.95 Add to cart2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
“The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. … this book
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867692
- Language: English
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The Listening Skin
$17.95 Read moreHewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deep… [more below]
- Author: Redmond, Glenis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245254
- Language: English
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The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection of the late poet’s work, with many previously unpublished poems.
“This collection is to be savored – an offering for the people of Knight’s signature humor, plain-spoken truths, and mu
- Author: Minnick, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1735017280
- Language: English
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Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves
$17.00 Add to cartFrom J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose.
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- Author: Lanham, J. Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Ellis, Thomas Sayers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976506
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
$17.99 Add to cartReal and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin’s first book is a bestseller and continues to delig… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480357
- Language: English
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Collected Poems: 1974-2004
$18.95 Add to cartRita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Ar
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354938
- Language: English
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Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
$22.95 Read more“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post
“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1574232533
- Language: English
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Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems
$21.00 Add to cartVoodoo Libretto is in many ways a book of memories, a chronicle of both the personal and the political sensibility of a black baby-boomer. Driven by a restless and wide-ranging imagination, the poems
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1733674187
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
$16.95 Add to cart“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpe… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230279
- Language: English
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She Fits Inside These Words: Volume 4
$16.99 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.
This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything- Series: What She Felt
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1524865389
- Language: English
