American - African American & Black
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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 Add to cartFrom 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
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The Weary Blues
$6.99 Add to cartA celebration of music from beginning to end, The Weary Blues is the debut poetry collection by the foremost Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes.
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back a
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1513203606
- Language: English
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Purgatory Road: Poems
$14.95 Add to cart“Coe is a poet’s poet, a jazzy, postmodern Ben Johnson . . . understated, but shimmering with wit, compassion, integrity of purpose.” — The Phoenix
His most powerful collection of poetry to date, Cha
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1948585693
- Language: English
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The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition
$18.00 Read more- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
- One of the best-selling poets of 2020
- 40,000 copies sold of original paperback
- Philadelphia using The Tradition for city-wide “One Book” reading program, the first
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596421
- Language: English
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
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Rest in the Mourning
$16.99 Read moreFrom best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning.
The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1449486738
- Language: English
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Mass for Shut-Ins: Volume 117
$20.00 Read moreThe 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds
“Against humans creating hell on ea- Series: Yale Younger Poets
- Author: Daniel, Mary-Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 300267991
- Language: English
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Anywho, I Love You
$24.99 Read moreFrom bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.
This is a- Author: King Holmes, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1524878057
- Language: English
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The Prophet: Bilingual Spanish and English Edition
$10.00 Add to cartA bilingual Spanish and English edition of The Prophet, with Gibran’s original drawings, in t te-b che format. The book follows Gibran’s original 1923 first edition, complete with his drawings, and ha
- Author: Gibran, Khalil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1734114215
- Language: English
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The Tradition
$34.99 Add to cartThe Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1556596022
- Language: English
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
$20.00 Add to cartDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize–now in one collectible volume
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to l- Series: American Poets Project #19
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1931082871
- Language: English
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.”
— from … [more below]- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1608681882
- Language: English
