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Girls That Never Die: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children
“Inc… [more below]- Author: Elhillo, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229487
- Language: English
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
$16.99 Add to cartUrgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Pr… [more below]
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 5, 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118239
- Language: English
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Black Pastoral: Poems
$22.95 Add to cartBlack Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples’ past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histori
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Benson, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365181
- Language: English
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Be Holding: A Poem
$17.00 Add to cartWinner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award
Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in PoetryWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving–known as- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 08, 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966239
- Language: English
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For All The Things I Never Got To Say
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning poet, Fanta Ballo “For All The Things I Never Got to Say” is a collection of poems that tackles topics ranging from family to love and relationships to social injustices. Fanta
- Author: Ballo, Fanta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: May 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 0578891433
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartSelected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 03, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060882964
- Language: English
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartA powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating–Spectral Evidence, Gregory- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1524731781
- Language: English
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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrat
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Winner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry
Winner of the BCALA Literary Award- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767412
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback and with bonus content!
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593465083
- Language: English
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Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
$26.95 Add to cartA preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jack
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: 5-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1324064900
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
$18.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America–the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning w… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 067972818X
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
$23.00 Add to cartThe definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine).
Here, for th- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679764089
- Language: English
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Alive at the End of the World
$16.95 Add to cartPierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.
In haunted p
- Author: Jones, Saeed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1566896517
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry
$30.00 Add to cartThe beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0812997875
- Language: English
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607672
- Language: English
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So to Speak
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead–to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137727
- Language: English
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Electric Arches
$16.00 Read moreOriginal meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.
- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468569
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$24.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
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The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593465067
- Language: English
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Counting Descent
$18.00 Add to cartClint Smith’s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition.
Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1938912659
- Language: English
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Above Ground
$28.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year 2023:
TIME
NPR’s Best Books
New York Public Library
Electric Lit
The Root
NBC Today
Mother JonesThe New York Times bestselling poetry collection with “inextinguishable g
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0316543039
- Language: English
