American - African American & Black
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.”
— from … [more below]- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1608681882
- Language: English
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Roadmap
$15.00 Add to cartIn this radical twenty-first century choreopoem, Dorian, a young American Black man, is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart his inevitable murder. He traces his family tree, from his grandmother t… [more below]
- Author: Prince, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1951631293
- Language: English
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Black Creole Chronicles
$18.95 Add to cartWho are Black Creoles? Saloy’s new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hur
- Author: Saloy, Mona Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1608012492
- Language: English
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Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures
$14.00 Read moreRecommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour
“(D)on’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and ra
- Author: Marin, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1944211845
- Language: English
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Thick with Trouble
$20.00 Read moreFrom National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South
In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrog- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: McBride, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137476
- Language: English
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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo
$15.95 Add to cartRoot-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)
Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0819565849
- Language: English
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Planting Gardens in Graves
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the first volume in an all new series.
r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that h- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1449487173
- Language: English
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Black Queer Hoe
$16.00 Add to cartA refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Kapri, Britteney Black Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469522
- Language: English
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Muscadine
$17.95 Read moreA. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick … [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Avant, A. H. Jerriod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 195424570X
- Language: English
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Daughter: The Soul Journey of a Black Woman in America Having a Human Experience
$16.99 Read moreDaughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Ebonee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 152488135X
- Language: English
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Things I Didn’t Do with This Body
$18.00 Read moreTold in six parts, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms–ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-p… [more below]
- Author: Gunn, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596588
- Language: English
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{#289-128}: Poems
$19.95 Add to cart“Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme,” remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of
- Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose
- Author: Horton, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0813179882
- Language: English
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1919
$16.00 Add to cartNPR Best Books of 2019
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019
Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitH- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465985
- Language: English
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A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson
$19.95 Read moreIn this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controve
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0472039067
- Language: English
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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
$12.95 Add to cartKaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200760
- Language: English
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Village
$16.95 Add to cartPart poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.
In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Ne
- Author: Diggs, Latasha N. Nevada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896614
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community
$17.00 Read moreDedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees Jones at her best as she writes toward and in search of all that connects and disconnects us.
In her fifth
- Author: Spears Jones, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596669
- Language: English
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Magical Negro
$16.95 Read moreMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems … [more below]
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1947793187
- Language: English
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She’s Strong, But She’s Tired: Volume 3
$16.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.
A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.- Series: What She Felt
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1524858285
- Language: English
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Winter Roses After Fall
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.
There’s a harshness in the air- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1524867896
- Language: English
