American - African American & Black
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Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive
$19.95 Add to cartThe Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive is a vibrant, … [more below]
- Author: Cagney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571623
- Language: English
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Lost Cities: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartBrimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time–ways of looking and l… [more below]
- Author: Robin, Valencia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556153
- Language: English
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Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
$17.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine–the second book in a creat
- Author: Fant, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447894
- Language: English
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Vintage Hughes
$19.00 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerfu… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034027
- Language: English
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Serenity’s Song: The Melody of Healing
$18.99 Add to cartThe second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity’s Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healin… [more below]
- Series: The Healing Verses
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600181
- Language: English
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Games for Children
$20.00 Add to cart“A restless collection of incredible breadth, whose ability to meld applied science, faith, history, racial myth, and personal archive gives us poems whose power is unmistakable. A game-changing book.
- Author: Wilson, Keith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551271
- Language: English
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Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartNursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and identity. Paying homage to the memory and work of elders and ancestors, Latorial Faison remembers her own matriarch, mothe… [more below]
- Series: Permafrost Prize
- Author: Faison, Latorial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1646427270
- Language: English
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The Natural Order of Things: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations
What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come- Author: Kelly, Donika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453592
- Language: English
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Green of All Heads
$19.00 Add to cartThe Whiting Award-winning poet returns.
Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood,
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145711
- Language: English
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All the Possible Bodies
$21.95 Add to cartSteeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of All the Possible Bodies attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal an
- Author: Pollock, Iain Haley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944905
- Language: English
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A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: White, Artress Bethany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902621
- Language: English
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Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-P?rez, and others… [more below]
- Author: Powell, M. Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593733991
- Language: English
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The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
$30.00 Add to cart“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” –Danez Smith, The Guardian
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voic- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1668055724
- Language: English
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Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartIn her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasil
- Author: Debevec-McKenney, Sasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110678
- Language: English
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Night Watch: Poems
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal
Following on hi- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319621
- Language: English
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Blue Opening: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartBlue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins–of illness, of language, of the universe–as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site o… [more below]
- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108469
- Language: English
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The Grace of Black Mothers
$18.00 Add to cartCarried within Martheaus Perkins’ The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered
- Author: Perkins, Martheaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1949487423
- Language: English
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Resting Bitch Face: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartAn Audacious Book Club Pick
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from obje- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1593767870
- Language: English
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New Moons: Phases of Healing
$18.99 Add to cartThe first installment in the Healing Verses series from prolific writer and poet r.h. Sin comes New Moons, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey o… [more below]
- Series: The Healing Verses
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600174
- Language: English
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Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa
$24.95 Read moreAnthology of new work honoring the legacy of a celebrated African American poet
This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Ko
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0819501344
- Language: English
