American - African American & Black
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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
$21.95 Add to cartAround the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voic… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345415
- Language: English
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King Me
$15.00 Add to cartIn this riveting debut, Reeves argues that black history is human history, and the suffering belongs to all of us.
- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594488
- Language: English
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I Am the Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
$14.99 Read moreFrom Dr. Martina McGowan, I am The Rage is a Nautilis Award & BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award Winning collection perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou
Through a blend of personal experiences
- Author: McGowan, Martina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1728245079
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
$16.95 Read moreThe poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Yona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 194558856X
- Language: English
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Phillis
$18.99 Add to cartPhillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. In 1773, her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published to international acclaim. Wheatley was pre
- Series: ISSN
- Author: Clarke, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1773851357
- Language: English
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Cain Named the Animal: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)
Writing you I give the death I take
I know I should feel wounded by your de- Author: McCrae, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607842
- Language: English
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Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems
$22.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes explains, “A study of scripture reveals that Jesus spent a lot of time with people in the margins. As an African American, I live in the margins
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1640606777
- Language: English
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The Little Deaths
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the earth and to nature
- Author: Tullis-Bukhari, Mercy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148539
- Language: English
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America’s major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton’s first four publi… [more below]
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0918526590
- Language: English
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Room Swept Home
$26.00 Read moreIntimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage
Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the invest
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500984
- Language: English
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S O S: Poems 1961-2013
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Notable Books
WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preem
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124682
- Language: English
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The Weary Blues
$6.99 Add to cartA celebration of music from beginning to end, The Weary Blues is the debut poetry collection by the foremost Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes.
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back a
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1513203606
- Language: English
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Purgatory Road: Poems
$14.95 Add to cart“Coe is a poet’s poet, a jazzy, postmodern Ben Johnson . . . understated, but shimmering with wit, compassion, integrity of purpose.” — The Phoenix
His most powerful collection of poetry to date, Cha
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1948585693
- Language: English
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The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition
$18.00 Read more- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
- One of the best-selling poets of 2020
- 40,000 copies sold of original paperback
- Philadelphia using The Tradition for city-wide “One Book” reading program, the first
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596421
- Language: English
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
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Rest in the Mourning
$16.99 Read moreFrom best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning.
The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1449486738
- Language: English
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Mass for Shut-Ins: Volume 117
$20.00 Read moreThe 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds
“Against humans creating hell on ea- Series: Yale Younger Poets
- Author: Daniel, Mary-Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 300267991
- Language: English
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Anywho, I Love You
$24.99 Read moreFrom bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.
This is a- Author: King Holmes, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1524878057
- Language: English
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The Prophet: Bilingual Spanish and English Edition
$10.00 Add to cartA bilingual Spanish and English edition of The Prophet, with Gibran’s original drawings, in t te-b che format. The book follows Gibran’s original 1923 first edition, complete with his drawings, and ha
- Author: Gibran, Khalil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1734114215
- Language: English
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The Tradition
$34.99 Add to cartThe Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1556596022
- Language: English
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
$20.00 Add to cartDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize–now in one collectible volume
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to l- Series: American Poets Project #19
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1931082871
- Language: English
