American - African American & Black
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Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves
$17.00 Add to cartFrom J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose.
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- Author: Lanham, J. Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
$22.00 Read more- Author: Ellis, Thomas Sayers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976506
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
$17.99 Add to cartReal and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin’s first book is a bestseller and continues to delig… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480357
- Language: English
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Collected Poems: 1974-2004
$18.95 Add to cartRita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Ar
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354938
- Language: English
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Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
$22.95 Add to cart“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post
“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1574232533
- Language: English
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Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems
$21.00 Add to cartVoodoo Libretto is in many ways a book of memories, a chronicle of both the personal and the political sensibility of a black baby-boomer. Driven by a restless and wide-ranging imagination, the poems
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1733674187
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
$16.95 Add to cart“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpe… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230279
- Language: English
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She Fits Inside These Words: Volume 4
$16.99 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.
This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything- Series: What She Felt
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1524865389
- Language: English
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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
$21.95 Add to cartAround the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voic… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345415
- Language: English
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King Me
$15.00 Add to cartIn this riveting debut, Reeves argues that black history is human history, and the suffering belongs to all of us.
- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594488
- Language: English
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I Am the Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
$14.99 Read moreFrom Dr. Martina McGowan, I am The Rage is a Nautilis Award & BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award Winning collection perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou
Through a blend of personal experiences
- Author: McGowan, Martina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1728245079
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
$16.95 Read moreThe poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Yona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 194558856X
- Language: English
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Phillis
$18.99 Add to cartPhillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. In 1773, her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published to international acclaim. Wheatley was pre
- Series: ISSN
- Author: Clarke, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1773851357
- Language: English
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Cain Named the Animal: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)
Writing you I give the death I take
I know I should feel wounded by your de- Author: McCrae, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607842
- Language: English
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Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems
$22.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes explains, “A study of scripture reveals that Jesus spent a lot of time with people in the margins. As an African American, I live in the margins
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1640606777
- Language: English
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The Little Deaths
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the earth and to nature
- Author: Tullis-Bukhari, Mercy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148539
- Language: English
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America’s major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton’s first four publi… [more below]
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0918526590
- Language: English
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Room Swept Home
$26.00 Read moreIntimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage
Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the invest
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500984
- Language: English
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S O S: Poems 1961-2013
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Notable Books
WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preem
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124682
- Language: English
