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Migration Letters: Poems
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present day
In 55 poems, M- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Keita, M. Nzadi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008079
- Language: English
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Crowded House
$20.00 Read moreLike a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma–her parents and brother fleeing military dictatorship in Somalia–can overlay the present day: “when my husband
- Author: Jama, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1957372052
- Language: English
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The End of the Alphabet
$18.00 Add to cartWith a new introduction by Calvin Bedient
Claudia Rankine’s second poetry collection, The End of the Alphabet, is an inquiry into despair and recovery, selfhood and alienation. Centered on a heroine n
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 080212447X
- Language: English
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
$25.99 Add to cartWalker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the l
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 463
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0156028611
- Language: English
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Worn
$14.95 Add to cartTenderness meets pain meets joy here, offering up the voices of Black folks fostering connection with their children, their lovers, and themselves. Christian’s third collection of poetry takes the rea… [more below]
- Author: Christian, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1951631099
- Language: English
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Mercurochrome
$18.95 Read moreA 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
- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 1574231537
- Language: English
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I Love My Love
$14.99 Read moreIn short, poignant verses, Reyna Biddy’s poems explore pain, emotional reckoning, and the power of self-love.
The debut collection from 22-year-old poet Reyna Biddy, I Love My Love tells the story of- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1449486762
- Language: English
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Woke Up No Light: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California
woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These a- Author: Mottley, Leila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593319710
- Language: English
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Bound
$18.00 Add to cartBound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn’t defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and… [more below]
- Author: Arriola-Headley, Jubi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0892555785
- Language: English
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A Season in Hell with Rimbaud
$17.00 Read moreIn pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.
The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Pearson, Dustin Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774597
- Language: English
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Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat
$16.95 Add to cartGhost in a Black Girl’s Throat is an honest incantation and a forthright song to women of color grappling with the ever-present horrors and histories of the South.
- Author: Rae, Khalisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 159709885X
- Language: English
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Doppelgangbanger
$16.00 Add to cartIn his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community.
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- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 164259265X
- Language: English
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Teahouse of the Almighty
$17.95 Add to cart“Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.”–E. Ethelbert Miller
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1566891930
- Language: English
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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
$17.99 Add to cartNAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work
From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suic- Author: Shange, Ntozake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1501169947
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations
$5.99 Add to cartOriginally written during his two year imprisonment in Atlanta, The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations is a collection of short thoughts or, impromptu poetry, from one of the Fathers of
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1513137719
- Language: English
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Watchnight
$17.95 Add to cartIn WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.
In exhilarati… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Cyree Jarelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1643621947
- Language: English
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The Third Renunciation
$18.95 Add to cartHeeding St. John Cassian’s call, The Third Renunciation rejects classic depictions of divinity and religious dogma to see God more fully. Each poem begins with a proposition (e.g. “Say God is the musi
- Author: Henry, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450944
- Language: English
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Touch
$15.00 Add to cartHenri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics–a mothe
- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533474
- Language: English
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Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
$17.00 Add to cartA GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS
Henri Cole has been described as a fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generat- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532664
- Language: English
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Haint: poems
$15.00 Add to cartInaugural Publication in the Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature / “Teri Cross Davis has the courage to make this complex experience come to life, to address it, to let her readers kno… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Teri Ellen Cross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 194072404X
- Language: English
