American - African American & Black
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A Body Tangled in Time: A Tapestry of Self-Love and Shadow Work
$18.00 Add to cartIn A Body Tangled in Time, Nastashia Minto honors the process of sitting with, in, and around the trauma imprinted in her body. Through poetry, song, and story, she detangles herself from skewed self-
- Author: Minto, Nastashia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0997749172
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal
$19.95 Add to cartFollowing the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale’s wor… [more below]
- Author: Tisdale, Celes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018941
- Language: English
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Freedom Knows My Name: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartFreedom Knows My Name takes readers on a poetic journey of seeking collective and personal freedom as a Black woman. By scanning the QR code on the back of the book, readers are transported to the aut
- Author: Harris-Deberry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: August 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1883275296
- Language: English
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Trouble the Water
$17.00 Add to cartProfound, lyric poems interrogate what it means to be fully human as a “queer, black body” in 21st century America.
- Author: Austin, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1942683049
- Language: English
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A Shiver in the Leaves
$17.00 Add to cartNestled against the backdrop of Seattle’s flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes’ debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from t… [more below]
- Series: New Poets of America
- Author: Hughes, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774678
- Language: English
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Witch Wife
$17.95 Add to cart“Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician’s command of atmosphere.”
—The New York Times, “The Best Poetry of 2017”Witch Wife is back in a brand new paperback editi
- Author: Petrosino, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1956046100
- Language: English
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On the Black Hand Side: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartOn the Black Hand Side is a collection of poems about black life, love, and justice. Coleman is engaged in the project of showing that black people’s humanity, and their lives, matter. His work is a j
- Author: Coleman, Gerald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1087868599
- Language: English
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Cruel/Cruel
$17.95 Add to cartA response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.
CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of … [more below]
- Author: J. Stephens, Dior
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621580
- Language: English
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Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
$18.99 Read moreGrace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the da… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 1400066107
- Language: English
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
$15.00 Read moreA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539359
- Language: English
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Hold What Makes You Whole
$19.99 Add to cartRest like the sun does:
Schedule some time
to stay out of sight
when too many people
praise warm energy …
THE BOOK.
Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker‘s (he/him) tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole, is a pock
- Author: Amaker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734673729
- Language: English
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People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity
$16.99 Read moreIn People Not Things: Love Poems for Humanity, Genesis Be offers a strikingly honest yet hopeful snapshot of her journey as a queer Black woman in America fighting for the humanity of her community.
P- Author: Be, Genesis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1524884812
- Language: English
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Kingdom Animalia
$17.00 Add to cartThis highly anticipated second collection is the winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 193441462X
- Language: English
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Muse Found in a Colonized Body
$17.95 Read moreIn the book’s eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, “How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?” Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhe
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Montilla, Yesenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245327
- Language: English
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Salt Body Shimmer
$18.00 Add to cartLyrical and rife with utterance, Salt Body Shimmer asks of the violence we inherit: who speaks from “the threshold throat” inside “the dark’s dark”? Interior driven and intimately political, the poems
- Author: Foreman, Aricka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919753
- Language: English
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C?saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #63
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868702
- Language: English
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Or, on Being the Other Woman
$17.95 Add to cartIn or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal nar… [more below]
- Author: White, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018461
- Language: English
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Reparations Now!
$16.00 Add to cartReparations Now! asks for what’s owed.
In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the Unit
- Author: Jones, Ashley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 193823586X
- Language: English
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Date of Birth: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Shawn R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0892555696
- Language: English
