Black Sparrow Press

  • The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York

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    An intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York.

    Westbeth Artists Housi

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    • Author: Trachtenberg, Peter
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1574232517
    • Language: English
  • Bukowski, a Life

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    The life of Charles Bukowski–laureate of lowlife Los Angeles–a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator.

    Neeli Cherk

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    • Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 376
    • Publish Date: July 28 2020
    • ISBN10: 157423241X
    • Language: English
  • Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

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    ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post

    A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman.

    Coleman

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    • Author: Coleman, Wanda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1574232371
    • Language: English
  • Mercurochrome

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    A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles who lived every day with racism, poverty, violence. The triumph is in words that endure. “Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage.” “The Language Beneath

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    • Author: Coleman, Wanda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 270
    • Publish Date: August 31 2001
    • ISBN10: 1574231537
    • Language: English
  • Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets

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    “Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post

    “Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times

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    • Author: Coleman, Wanda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: June 21 2022
    • ISBN10: 1574232533
    • Language: English
  • Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art

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    Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.

    This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, As

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    • Author: Yau, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1574232614
    • Language: English
  • Summer Solstice: An Essay

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    Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon — but they’re captured here, in loving se

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    • Author: Maclaughlin, Nina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: April 27 2020
    • ISBN10: 157423238X
    • Language: English
  • Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

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    ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post

    A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman.

    Coleman

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    • Author: Coleman, Wanda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1574232460
    • Language: English
  • Winter Solstice: An Essay

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    BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERBOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTION

    A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, e

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    • Author: Maclaughlin, Nina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: November 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1574232576
    • Language: English
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