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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
$23.00 Add to cartThe definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine).
Here, for th- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679764089
- Language: English
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Alive at the End of the World
$16.95 Add to cartPierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.
In haunted p
- Author: Jones, Saeed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1566896517
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry
$30.00 Add to cartThe beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0812997875
- Language: English
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607672
- Language: English
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So to Speak
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead–to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137727
- Language: English
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Electric Arches
$16.00 Read moreOriginal meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.
- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468569
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
$24.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
Formerl
The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593465067
- Language: English
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Counting Descent
$18.00 Add to cartClint Smith’s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition.
Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1938912659
- Language: English
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Above Ground
$28.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year 2023:
TIME
NPR’s Best Books
New York Public Library
Electric Lit
The Root
NBC Today
Mother JonesThe New York Times bestselling poetry collection with “inextinguishable g
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0316543039
- Language: English
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
$15.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller
Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available a- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 059346527X
- Language: English
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The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition
$22.00 Read moreWith a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved … [more below]
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596782
- Language: English
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The Black Unicorn: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartRich continues: “Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and hea… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312372
- Language: English
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Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts
$17.00 Add to cart“You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same.” That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham
- Author: Lanham, J. Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1938235819
- Language: English
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Unshuttered: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century
Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-ce- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810145634
- Language: English
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This Day Is Dark
$16.99 Add to cartr.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, as explored in his signature poetic voice.
From New Y- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524882216
- Language: English
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Bonfire Opera: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2021 Northern California Book AwardFinalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilizati… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Lameris, Danusha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966050
- Language: English
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The Big Smoke
$20.00 Read moreA suite of poems examining the myth and history of the legendary prizefighter Jack Johnson—a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—from the author, with Youssef Daoudi, of
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Matejka, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28, 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123726
- Language: English
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Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why D
$8.99 Add to cartTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart andcelebrates life as only she has discovered it. Inthis moving volume of poetry, we hear themulti-facet… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0553255762
- Language: English
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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartThe award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image–a multi-part retrospective that
- Author: Anastacia-Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063221713
- Language: English
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Best Barbarian: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf‘s Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thin
- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064455
- Language: English
