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The Shared World: Poems
$28.00 Read moreThe latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions bet
- Author: Francis, Vievee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0810145197
- Language: English
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Trace Evidence: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity
- Author: Shanahan, Charif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 195353466X
- Language: English
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Life on Mars
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* Poet Laureate of the United States *
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publ- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1555975844
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel I
$17.99 Add to cartCompletely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy!
Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healt- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 2, 2017
- ISBN10: 1449488064
- Language: English
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
$16.00 Add to cartA collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou
These four poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” “Weekend Glory,” and “Our Grandmothers,” are among the most remembered and- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17, 1995
- ISBN10: 0679439242
- Language: English
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A Good Cry
$18.99 Add to cartThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issue
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062399462
- Language: English
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I Love My People
$15.99 Add to cartSay it with her now: “I love my people!”
In rhythmic prowess, Kim Singleton recounts the beauty and legacy of Black people who are “too many to name, from the corners of obscurity, to the highest of f
- Author: Singleton, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486711
- Language: English
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Aster of Ceremonies: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA polyphonic new entry in Multiverse–a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, Th… [more below]
- Series: Multiverse
- Author: Ellis, Jjjjjerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550127
- Language: English
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
$26.00 Add to cartTupac Shakur’s most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.
His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded atte- Author: Shakur, Tupac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671028448
- Language: English
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Girls That Never Die: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children
“Inc… [more below]- Author: Elhillo, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229487
- Language: English
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
$16.99 Add to cartUrgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Pr… [more below]
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 5, 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118239
- Language: English
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Black Pastoral: Poems
$22.95 Add to cartBlack Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples’ past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histori
- Series: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
- Author: Benson, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365181
- Language: English
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Be Holding: A Poem
$17.00 Add to cartWinner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award
Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in PoetryWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving–known as- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 08, 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966239
- Language: English
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For All The Things I Never Got To Say
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning poet, Fanta Ballo “For All The Things I Never Got to Say” is a collection of poems that tackles topics ranging from family to love and relationships to social injustices. Fanta
- Author: Ballo, Fanta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: May 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 0578891433
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartSelected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 03, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060882964
- Language: English
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartA powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic
Elegant, profound, and intoxicating–Spectral Evidence, Gregory- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1524731781
- Language: English
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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
$16.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrat
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Winner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry
Winner of the BCALA Literary Award- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767412
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback and with bonus content!
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593465083
- Language: English
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Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
$26.95 Add to cartA preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jack
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: 5-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1324064900
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
$18.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America–the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning w… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 067972818X
- Language: English
