American - African American & Black
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: Poems
$17.95 Read moreNational Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 1566892996
- Language: English
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Ballast
$18.00 Read moreA poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.
In 1841, the only successful, large-scale … [more below]- Author: Baker, Quenton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599026
- Language: English
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Alt-Nature
$17.95 Read moreTo foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real.
To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and
- Author: Morgan, Saretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1566896975
- Language: English
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We Find Our Way
$16.99 Add to cart“To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It’s a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wa… [more below]
- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1524873861
- Language: English
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The Black Automaton
$17.00 Read more“Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ‘mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ . . . These poems literally vibrate with Kearney’s precocious intellect and passion. They hum,
- Series: National Poetry Series Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 193420028X
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Chicago
$17.00 Add to cartNamed “Best Chicago Poet” by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City’s hidden history.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Coval, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 160846671X
- Language: English
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Wail Song: Or Wading in the Water at the End of the World
$17.00 Read moreWail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an extended contemplation on being that lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both … [more below]
- Author: Webster, Chaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1939568684
- Language: English
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A brilliant uncertain rebellion
$11.99 Add to cartThis poetry collection is a celebration of self determination and will. It is a declaration of joy and resilience. It is a battle cry and a call to all those who have ever faced unnecessary expectatio
- Author: Ahanu, Dasan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1733050280
- Language: English
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Scar On / Scar Off
$13.99 Add to cartJennifer Maritza McCauley’s ‘Scar On/Scar Off’ is by turns neon-lit and beating, defiant and clashing, searching and struggling, in fistfuls of recognition, in constant pursuit of intersections and du
- Author: McCauley, Jennifer Maritza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0999115200
- Language: English
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Buck Studies
$15.95 Add to cart“[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place.”–The Los Angele
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0986437379
- Language: English
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Chosen Poems: Old and New
$17.99 Add to cartChosen Poems is also, Lorde says, “a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited.” Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Citie… [more below]
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 039330017X
- Language: English
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Black Venus Fly Trap
$18.00 Add to cartA shocking debut poetry collection that invites readers to grapple with the origins of a world that both hates and needs Black women. A disruptive hagiography of the Black Venus & Sapphire, mammy bull
- Author: Rich, Jeanetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: June 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1736210424
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
$5.99 Add to cartPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513277413
- Language: English
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The Black Maria
$16.00 Add to cartTimely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683022
- Language: English
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Prime: Poetry & Conversation
$16.95 Add to cartPrime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a necessity as the historically well-indexed canon of white quee… [more below]
- Author: Holnes, Darrel Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1937420736
- Language: English
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Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations, and Other Magic
$10.00 Add to cartA call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predom… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Atena O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1558968881
- Language: English
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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Mother Body
$16.00 Add to cartMother Body is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As Mother Body unfolds, it tasks its reader to understand the expected and … [more below]
- Author: Forde, Diamond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1947817248
- Language: English
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attraversiamo
$14.95 Add to cartATTRAVERSIAMO, Monique Ferrell’s third collection of poetry, is an examination of a life in progress. It includes twenty-seven new poems that focus on the importance and impact of living within a skin… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1630450219
- Language: English
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Hollywood Forever
$17.95 Add to cartHoliday curates poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and activism. The “legacies” of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday and other icons collide, harnessing taboos they upheld triumphant
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0986437301
- Language: English
