African
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Bakandamiya: An Elegy
$18.95 Add to cartCovering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, Bakandamiya: An Elegy is a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyri… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244273
- Language: English
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Black Passport: A Migrant’s Memoir
$26.82 Add to cartIn Black Passport, Paul Akpomuje takes us through a journey of black African migration in Canada, tracing the complexities of identity, the possibilities of fugitivity, the weight of home, and the way… [more below]
- Author: Akpomuje, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: December 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1069803405
- Language: English
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Stages: Poems
$19.99 Add to cart“Tramaine Suubi is a visionary love poet, and stages makes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, emb
- Author: Suubi, Tramaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063344955
- Language: English
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82nd Division
$18.95 Add to cartTHE POEMS IN 82ND DIVISION, written in various forms including the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author’
- Author: Aderibigbe, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142427
- Language: English
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My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body: Poems
$14.95 Add to cartThe 2024 Moon City Poetry Award
How do our ancestors inhabit the world that they have abandoned? What is the place of our family in our hearts? In this stunning debut collection, Ìfẹ́- Author: Ãyà ndélé, ÃŒféolúwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0913785717
- Language: English
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Death Does Not End at the Sea
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
In Gbenga Adesina’s groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we e- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Adesina, Gbenga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624477X
- Language: English
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Phases: Poems
$19.99 Add to cartIn this electrifying debut poetry collection–written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah–a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions,
- Author: Suubi, Tramaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063344912
- Language: English
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Heavy Is the Head
$16.99 Add to cart“Where does all the grief go when it’s not tugging at your wrist?” Enyegue’s debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.
This colle- Author: Enyegue, Sumaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1771682973
- Language: English
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Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartMubanga Kalimamukwento’s multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumat
- Author: Kalimamukwento, Mubanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1965320317
- Language: English
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Wild: Poems
$21.99 Read moreA rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author.
Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist,- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1635422922
- Language: English
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Mental Fight: An Epic Poem
$21.99 Read moreAn epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winning author.
There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far–art in all its form- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422906
- Language: English
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A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
$21.99 Read moreFrom the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and COVID-19.
In our times of crisis- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423082
- Language: English
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Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969-2018
$24.95 Add to cartKeorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collabo… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Kgositsile, Keorapetse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149622115X
- Language: English
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Loving the Dying
$17.95 Add to cartLoving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Verwey, Len
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234685
- Language: English
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God Lifted Me
$25.00 Add to cart“God Lifted Me” is written to give my Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ all the glory, honor, praise, and gratitude my soul can muster. The poems reflect personal healing, affirmation
- Author: Hanks, Mary Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218231866
- Language: English
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A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor: Selected Poems
$17.00 Add to cartFirst American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.
- Series: Lannan Literary Selections
- Author: Al-Massri, Maram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592647
- Language: English
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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Osman, Ladan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803266863
- Language: English
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Africanamerican’t
$16.00 Add to cartIf the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN’T offers no answers. The CAN’T in the title suggests impossibility and that is precisely what
- Author: Falomo, Ayokunle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447325
- Language: English
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is bes… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Okara, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803286872
- Language: English
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Origins of the Syma Species
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neg
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oburumu, Tares
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237021
- Language: English
