American - African American & Black
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Good Dress
$18.00 Add to cartFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, cl… [more below]
- Author: Rogers, Brittany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030833
- Language: English
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A Little Bump in the Earth
$22.00 Read moreThrough invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill–its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.
Tyree Daye’s a little bump in the earth is an act of i
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 155659688X
- Language: English
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2000 Blacks: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explo… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Tolase, Ajibola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967308
- Language: English
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Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters
$18.00 Add to cartThis new collection celebrates the 250th anniversary of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), by gathering the voices of 20 Black female poets to reimagine the work of Phillis Wheatle
- Author: Legros Georges, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986243016
- Language: English
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A Vessel Born to Float: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartPoignant and beautifully examined, poet Yazmin Monét Watkins takes readers on an introspective journey through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, family, self-love, and all things Black Gir… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, Yazmin Monet Monet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1524892564
- Language: English
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Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson
$21.95 Read more- Author: Hairston, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0813198887
- Language: English
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The Hummingbird’s Garden
$15.53 Add to cart“She picks a few For her vibrant garden, With the sound of the Honeybees and Hummingbirds Moving through her mind.” Jill Tyler-Dolan wrote The Hummingbird’s Garden and illustrated both the interior pa
- Author: Tyler-Dolan, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1738919129
- Language: English
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
$25.95 Add to cartThe concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods… [more below]
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006455
- Language: English
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Instructions for the Lovers
$17.95 Read moreA taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.
“Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry c
- Author: Martin, Dawn Lundy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622315
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Add to cartA 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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The Little Edges
$15.95 Read morePoems that play in the sonic texture of discourses
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)
The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shape
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0819576700
- Language: English
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Glitter Road
$18.00 Read moreA beautiful portrait of how joy is an act of resistance.
“My poems brought me to Oxford, Mississippi a.k.a. the velvet ditch: / a place you can fall into, get comfortable among confederate rebels,” w- Author: Gill O’Neil, January
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1960327011
- Language: English
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The Essential June Jordan
$18.00 Add to cartHonored as a Best Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly
This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poe- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1556596200
- Language: English
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Long Rain
$16.00 Add to cartLong Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Here, Moore expands on the rich history of African
- Author: Moore, Lenard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1732436991
- Language: English
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Shackled Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartPoetry collection by Dasan Ahanu, award-winning poet, performance artist, public speaker, community organizer, educator, scholar and emcee. An Alumni Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard’s Hip Hop Archive an
- Author: Ahanu, Dasan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1735740810
- Language: English
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Field Study
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets
“Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our intera- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539022
- Language: English
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Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black Ame- Author: Finney, Nikky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0810142015
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & Shovel Boxed Set Volume 1-3
$52.00 Read moreBrimming with raw emotional energy, this beautiful box set collects all three volumes of r.h. Sin’s groundbreaking debut series.
Volumes I-III of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series in a sleek slipca- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 144949322X
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Because You Were Mine
$17.00 Add to cartIn their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival.
“I’ve decided I can… [more below]- Author: Janae, Brionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599123
- Language: English
