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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
$15.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller
Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available a- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 059346527X
- Language: English
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The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition
$22.00 Read moreWith a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved … [more below]
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596782
- Language: English
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The Black Unicorn: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartRich continues: “Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and hea… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312372
- Language: English
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Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts
$17.00 Read more“You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same.” That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham
- Author: Lanham, J. Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1938235819
- Language: English
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Unshuttered: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century
Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-ce- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810145634
- Language: English
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This Day Is Dark
$16.99 Add to cartr.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, as explored in his signature poetic voice.
From New Y- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524882216
- Language: English
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Bonfire Opera: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2021 Northern California Book AwardFinalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilizati… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Lameris, Danusha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966050
- Language: English
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The Big Smoke
$20.00 Add to cartA suite of poems examining the myth and history of the legendary prizefighter Jack Johnson—a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—from the author, with Youssef Daoudi, of
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Matejka, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28, 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123726
- Language: English
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Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why D
$8.99 Add to cartTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart andcelebrates life as only she has discovered it. Inthis moving volume of poetry, we hear themulti-facet… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0553255762
- Language: English
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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartThe award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image–a multi-part retrospective that
- Author: Anastacia-Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063221713
- Language: English
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Best Barbarian: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064455
- Language: English
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
$23.00 Add to cartSelected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton’s 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 1950774155
- Language: English
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The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department’s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
In August 2014, Michael Brown- Author: Sealey, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593535995
- Language: English
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Love Poems
$17.99 Add to cartIn a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America’s most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 14 1997
- ISBN10: 0688149898
- Language: English
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A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartb… [more below]
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1947793438
- Language: English
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
$19.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni’s early work!
“Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures.”–Gloria Naylor
When Nikki Giovanni’s
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060724293
- Language: English
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Domestic Work
$17.00 Read moreMississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and “Domestic Work,” has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in “The Best America
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: August 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 1555973094
- Language: English
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Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics
$27.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist.
“All my li- Author: Keys, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0425205606
- Language: English
