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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
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Roadmap
$15.00 Add to cartIn this radical twenty-first century choreopoem, Dorian, a young American Black man, is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart his inevitable murder. He traces his family tree, from his grandmother t… [more below]
- Author: Prince, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1951631293
- Language: English
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Black Creole Chronicles
$18.95 Read moreWho are Black Creoles? Saloy’s new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hur
- Author: Saloy, Mona Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1608012492
- Language: English
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Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures
$14.00 Read moreRecommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour
“(D)on’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and ra
- Author: Marin, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1944211845
- Language: English
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Thick with Trouble
$20.00 Read moreFrom National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South
In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrog- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: McBride, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137476
- Language: English
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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo
$15.95 Add to cartRoot-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)
Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0819565849
- Language: English
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Planting Gardens in Graves
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the first volume in an all new series.
r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that h- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1449487173
- Language: English
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Black Queer Hoe
$16.00 Add to cartA refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Kapri, Britteney Black Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469522
- Language: English
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Muscadine
$17.95 Read moreA. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick … [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Avant, A. H. Jerriod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 195424570X
- Language: English
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Daughter: The Soul Journey of a Black Woman in America Having a Human Experience
$16.99 Read moreDaughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Ebonee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 152488135X
- Language: English
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Things I Didn’t Do with This Body
$18.00 Add to cartTold in six parts, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms–ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-p… [more below]
- Author: Gunn, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596588
- Language: English
