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The 100 Best African American Poems [With CD (Audio)]
$24.99 Add to cartA collection of classic and contemporary poems by Black authors selected by New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni.
Immerse yourself in the heart and soul of African Americ
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402221118
- Language: English
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
$16.00 Read more“Wilson’s collection is romantic yet world-weary, bereaved yet fortified―a kindred reflection of the heart in the modern world.” ―Publishers Weekly Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collect… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Keith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1556595611
- Language: English
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Patter
$17.95 Add to cartFor a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents’ faces, where does that vio
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 159709580X
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
$7.95 Add to cartBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Re… [more below]
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2010
- ISBN10: 048647593X
- Language: English
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The New Testament
$17.00 Add to cartJericho Brown ushers the body from political and religious battlegrounds, employing the rhythms of sexuality and spirituality to protest oppression.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1556594577
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartMemento Mori is a meditation on mortality, change and loss. Rather than being simply somber, this volume observes our human condition through a poetic kaleidoscope, with glimpses of irony and humor th… [more below]
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1948585022
- Language: English
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The Study of Human Life
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award
An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addr- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136828
- Language: English
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Digest
$15.95 Read moreFrom Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we expe… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Series Selections
- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1935536508
- Language: English
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Previously Owned
$17.95 Read moreIn his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker’s American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owne… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: McClain, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245262
- Language: English
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
$16.95 Read moreIn his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire an… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Blount, Tommye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588497
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
$24.95 Read moreThe definitive guide to a major African American poet
This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton’s unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in Ameri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hernton, Calvin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500364
- Language: English
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Forest Primeval: Poems
$22.00 Read moreWinner, 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Winner, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category
Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize
Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exc- Author: Francis, Vievee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0810132435
- Language: English
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Apocrifa
$16.95 Read moreapocrifa imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, ro… [more below]
- Author: Flame, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1636280633
- Language: English
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Cardinal
$16.00 Read moreTyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”– the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed… [more below]
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595735
- Language: English
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To Be Named Something Else
$19.95 Read moreNamed one of New York Public Library’s Best Books, 2023
Winner, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeTo Be Named Something Else is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage–both famili
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Phenix, Shaina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262286
- Language: English
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Bastards of the Reagan Era
$15.95 Read moreBastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear “the sound that comes from al… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1935536656
- Language: English
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Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
$15.95 Read moreGreat American writers–William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James–all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reprod… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229777
- Language: English
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Finna: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular–its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its inti… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593132459
- Language: English
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Incendiary Art: Poems
$22.00 Read moreWinner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category
Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0810134330
- Language: English
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Antebellum Dream Book
$14.00 Read moreIn surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisational
- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 155597354X
- Language: English
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