American - African American & Black
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Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black
$18.95 Add to cart“Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney’s resilience and ingenuity … [more below]
- Series: Wick First Book
- Author: Keizer, Arlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 160635468X
- Language: English
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Dark Testament: And Other Poems
$15.95 Read moreThere has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her n… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Pauli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 163149483X
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$27.00 Read moreThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
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The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593557085
- Language: English
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American Scapegoat
$17.95 Add to cartAmerican Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America’s neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper con
- Author: Surin, Enzo Silon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570503
- Language: English
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
$35.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603766
- Language: English
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Golden Ax
$18.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
“Outstanding . . . the poetr
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Cortez, Rio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0143137131
- Language: English
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Grocery Shopping with My Mother
$24.00 Read more“Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country’s oppression through the generational wounds surviv… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767439
- Language: English
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Remedies for Disappearing
$17.00 Read moreA collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an … [more below]
- Author: Patrick, Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599131
- Language: English
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Bread and Circus
$26.00 Read more“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 166801145X
- Language: English
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Murmur
$17.95 Read moreA poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America.
The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the ques- Author: Barnett, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1637680872
- Language: English
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Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others
$16.95 Add to cartThese sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin.
Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental s
- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281664
- Language: English
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Silver: Poems
$26.00 Read moreRowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.
This beautiful, slender collection–small and weighted like a coin–is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very be- Author: Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611319
- Language: English
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My Specific Awe and Wonder: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartReuben Jackson’s rhythmic and musical poems merge love, beauty, justice, and the lived Black experience in America.
My Specific Awe and Wonder is a collection of new and selected poems Jackson describ
- Author: Jackson, Reuben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691788
- Language: English
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Bread and Circus
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1668011468
- Language: English
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Load in Nine Times: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartFor decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved expl
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094931
- Language: English
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Songs from Under the River: A Poetry Collection of Early and New Work
$18.00 Add to cartWorld renowned performer, top-selling author and two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, Anis Mojgani has combed through out-of-print editions to put together Songs from Under the River.
A best-of coll… [more below]
- Author: Mojgani, Anis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1938912241
- Language: English
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Hurdy-Gurdy
$12.00 Read more“From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we w… [more below]
- Series: CSU Poetry Series #38
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0914946986
- Language: English
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The Selected Shepherd: Poems
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic po… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Shepherd, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948214
- Language: English
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Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
$29.00 Read moreA new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism
Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates i- Author: Clarke, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0810147602
- Language: English
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Tapping Out: Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the arresting backdrop to Nandi Comer’s collection Tapping Out. Mexican freestyle wrestling becomes the … [more below]
- Author: Comer, Nandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0810142090
- Language: English
