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American Smooth: Poems
$18.99 Add to cartAn occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove’s magnificent poems p… [more below]
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327442
- Language: English
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Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
$20.00 Add to cartLatest poetry collection from poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow and Guggenheim Fellow, Fred Moten.
“…some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall som
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268764
- Language: English
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Horsepower: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartPriest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl spea… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Priest, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966190
- Language: English
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Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62
$15.95 Add to cart2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry – Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance
2022 California Book Award Finalist
Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #62
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868753
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Even the men in
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978363
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
$40.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry
“The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton–both the woman and her poetry–is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1934414905
- Language: English
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Worldly Things
$16.00 Read more“Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.”
In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath a… [more below]
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Kleber-Diggs, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550755
- Language: English
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Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartThe debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry
Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fre- Series: Princeton Contemporary Poets #170
- Author: Mulalu, Tawanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0691239037
- Language: English
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets “What has restlessness been for?” In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips re- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538247
- Language: English
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My AfroRican State of Soul: A Journey of Identidad, Struggle, Love & Faith
$20.00 Add to cartMy AfroRican State of Soul is a blend of narrative nonfiction and poetry that chronicles Lucas Rivera’s journey through life. In her foreword, Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Professor of African
- Author: Rivera, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1952952557
- Language: English
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Best Barbarian: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartThe poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf‘s Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thin
- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0393609332
- Language: English
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Still Water: Poems
$14.95 Add to cartAfrican American, Cabo Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway all converge in Jewelle Gomez’s exquisite collection of poetry that explores the legacies of family heritage, history, and identity. Gomez contemplates h
- Author: Gomez, Jewelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1735906530
- Language: English
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Sho
$18.00 Add to cart2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY
Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming s
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1950268152
- Language: English
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She Lives in Music
$15.00 Add to cartShe Lives In Music is a nourishing of the soul, spirit and mind collection by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. You can’t help but tap your feet and groove with the elements in the brave but confident voice o
- Author: Sanderson, Andrea Vocab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1734561718
- Language: English
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We Hope This Reaches You in Time
$16.99 Add to cartA revised and expanded paperback edition of We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin with all-new bonus material from the authors.
Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestsellin- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1524855766
- Language: English
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
$27.00 Add to cartAffordable paperback of volume honored as one of Library Journal’s “Poetry Books of the Year.”
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592345
- Language: English
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Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
$24.99 Add to cartHere are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy.
Wright discovered the haiku in the la- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611453496
- Language: English
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Counting Descent
$24.99 Add to cartClnt Smth’s deut poetry collecton, Countng Descent, s a comng of age story that seeks to complcate our concepton of lneage and tradton.
Smth explores the cogntve dssonance that results from elongng to… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 193891211X
- Language: English
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The Weary Blues
$6.00 Add to cartThe Weary Blues is Langston Hughes’s first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0486849015
- Language: English
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Ugly Music
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER, 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry!
Diannely Antigua’s debut collection Ugly Music is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss whe
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 99
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936919648
- Language: English
