American - African American & Black
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Mountain Spells: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartFormer poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones t
- Author: St Negritude, Toussaint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1578692008
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0375405518
- Language: English
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Perfect Black
$19.95 Add to cartCrystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakenin
- Author: Wilkinson, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0813151163
- Language: English
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Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
$16.00 Add to cartThis dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Chr- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400065585
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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Bittering the Wound
$16.95 Read moreA firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.
Jacqui Germain’s debut collection, Bittering the Wound, is a first-person retelling o- Author: Germain, Jacqui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1637680562
- Language: English
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Discordant
$16.95 Read moreLyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices–from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism.
Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a sear- Author: Hamilton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637680732
- Language: English
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Un-American
$15.95 Read morePoems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?
2021 PEN Open Book Finalist
2021 NAACP Image Award Finalist, Poetry
2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, LonglistDancing between lyr
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Geter, Hafizah Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0819579815
- Language: English
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Black Swim
$17.00 Read moreIn Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness.
This stunning debut collection is at once “forged from the hurt parts of the ground,” and “proof of a miracle,
- Author: Goodly, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596510
- Language: English
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Find Her. Keep Her.
$14.99 Read moreGripping and poignant, this new collection of poetry from bestselling author Renaada Williams offers a raw view of the world from her unique perspective.
Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deep- Author: Williams, Renaada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 152487390X
- Language: English
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A Beauty Has Come
$18.95 Add to cartA collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space.
A Beauty Has Come takes the reader on a sonic
- Author: Gibson, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621750
- Language: English
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Mistress
$16.00 Read moreThis book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the s… [more below]
- Author: Sebree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936970627
- Language: English
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Up Jump the Boogie
$16.95 Read morePoetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. “Up jumps the boogie. That’s almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn’t have a favorite poet for this year: Now… [more below]
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588500
- Language: English
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I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
$16.00 Read moreThe long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative, detailing the impact of the destructive mass incarceration system.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Browne, Mahogany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595705
- Language: English
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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
$23.32 Read moreThought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.
- Author: Jacques, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814350380
- Language: English
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Moving to Neptune: New & Selected
$22.00 Read moreBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman
- Author: Braggs, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 193469567X
- Language: English
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Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
$17.00 Add to cart“Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic.” –Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of
- Author: Mullen, Harryette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976565
- Language: English
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Build Yourself a Boat
$16.00 Add to cartBuild Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
- Author: Felix, Camonghne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466116
- Language: English
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
$19.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0062995286
- Language: English
