American - African American & Black
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Bloodstone Cowboy
$10.00 Add to cartKara Jackson’s Bloodstone Cowboy is a reclamation of her lineage, an affirmation of self, and a declaration of her right to contain multitudes. These poems from the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate c… [more below]
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Jackson, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642591521
- Language: English
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Commissions Y Corridos: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartHakim Bellamy’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mex
- Series: The Albuquerque Poet Laureate
- Author: Bellamy, Hakim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826363172
- Language: English
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Dangerous Goods
$16.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD
From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as “transcendent” by Kevin Young and “steadily confident” by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker througho
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1571314571
- Language: English
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A Fire in the Hills
$22.00 Add to cartIn A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Afaa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 163628082X
- Language: English
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Render Me Bountiful: A Collection of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartRender Me Bountiful is a collection of poetry that was written to fill your entire mind, body, and spirit with a new breath of life. You are at once captivated by the poetry’s potent truth and honesty… [more below]
- Author: Yarborough, Pamela K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 197726042X
- Language: English
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Hawk
$19.95 Add to cartHawk is a magnificent long-form poem analogizing flight into space with freedom. First published in 1957, these new editions (paperback and hardcover facsimile) mark the first time Hawk is widely avai… [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1638040915
- Language: English
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Bicycles: Love Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of n
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0061726494
- Language: English
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Zero to Three: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWhat started out as a way to address dealing with parenting and, in particular, fatherhood, became a series of poems focused on familial roles and situations that are difficult to articulate, even amo… [more below]
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Brown, F. Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0820347272
- Language: English
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I Hope She Finds This
$22.99 Read moreA care package, left by r.h. Sin, found by you.
From New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, comes a care package of two new poetry and prose collections boxed together in an elegant slipcase.Aut
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1524871133
- Language: English
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Lexicon
$16.95 Add to cartLexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph’s award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. This time around, this self-professed “barefaced woman” is setting her sighs/sights on l
- Author: Joseph, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1597097179
- Language: English
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What Can I Tell You?
$18.00 Add to cartCharting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of anti-Blackness that centers Trans-Atlantic and Latinx Blackness in all its vastness, beauty, and
- Author: Garcia, Roberto Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447643
- Language: English
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Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61
$15.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
2018 American Book Award Winner
2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry
2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #61
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867455
- Language: English
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Speak Low
$15.00 Add to cartSpeak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncomprom
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532168
- Language: English
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Olio
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry 2016 National Book Criti- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1940696208
- Language: English
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Negro Mountain
$18.00 Read moreA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.
In the final section of Negro Mountain, C.- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Giscombe, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829715
- Language: English
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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
$16.00 Read moreIn Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in
- Author: Abimbola, Kweku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452278
- Language: English
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Affrilachia: Poems
$19.95 Read moreA milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, ar… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0967542405
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
$19.95 Add to cart2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
“The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. … this book
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867692
- Language: English
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The Listening Skin
$17.95 Read moreHewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deep… [more below]
- Author: Redmond, Glenis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245254
- Language: English
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The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection of the late poet’s work, with many previously unpublished poems.
“This collection is to be savored – an offering for the people of Knight’s signature humor, plain-spoken truths, and mu
- Author: Minnick, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1735017280
- Language: English
