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Brutal Imagination
$14.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry
Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America. “A hymn to all- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0399147209
- Language: English
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Black California Gold
$19.95 Add to cartFor numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool’s gold–promising easy riches but freque… [more below]
- Series: Griot Project Book
- Author: Thompson, Wendy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684485509
- Language: English
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Wash
$18.00 Add to cartWASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart’s praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a devotional space for healing.
Stewart’s… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Stewart, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1638341206
- Language: English
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What Had Happened Was
$23.95 Add to cartIn her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Ther? Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and hi… [more below]
- Author: Pickens, Ther? Alyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031492
- Language: English
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Purchase: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartPurchase is for those who are grieving, who feel frightened by the world’s meanness, who are solitary. It is for those who, even in the midst of mourning, find themselves distracted from despair by th… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967294
- Language: English
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Beyond the Watershed
$18.00 Read moreA hybrid collection that explores the dual nature of water as both a destructive and healing force, mirroring the experiences of Black women and girls.
A hybrid collection of poetry and photography,- Series: Emerging Voices
- Author: Alexis, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1960327097
- Language: English
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Boy Maybe: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart51 achingly eloquent poems from a young Cave Canem fellow: W. J. Lofton’s verses explore Black queer Southern identity, grief, love, and intimacy while enduring and witnessing unfreedom in America
W.- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Lofton, W. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017825
- Language: English
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The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems
$17.95 Add to cartSteven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
In The Opposite of Cruelt
- Author: Leyva, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888346
- Language: English
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The Choreic Period: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy.
Latif Askia Ba–an acclaimed poet with Choreic Cere… [more below]
- Series: Multiverse
- Author: Ba, Latif Askia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551182
- Language: English
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Strange Beach: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartA debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform–across oceans and within relationships–told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens
At times surreal, at times philosophica- Author: Olayiwola, Oluwaseun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1593767765
- Language: English
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I’ll Cry If I Want to: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA poignant journey through womanhood, motherhood, mental health, and identity, with a unique lens on the biracial experience, offering solace and understanding amidst life’s complexities.
I’ll Cry If- Author: Franco, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 177168397X
- Language: English
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Back to Alabama
$16.00 Add to cartBack to Alabama is a poignant poetry collection exploring the complexities of Black American identity, family, cultural heritage, womanhood, and religious faith. As Valerie A. Smith writes, “The Blues
- Author: Smith, Valerie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1951979648
- Language: English
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Greater Ghost
$17.95 Add to cartIn Christian Collier’s debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move b… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Collier, Christian J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897105
- Language: English
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We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep
$18.00 Add to cartWe Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and re
- Author: Kneeland, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734958944
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from?The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050934
- Language: English
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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth co- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116967
- Language: English
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Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems
$17.00 Add to cartAll of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition
During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as we- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0807084867
- Language: English
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Trophic Cascade
$14.95 Read morePoems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power
Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positio
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0819578568
- Language: English
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The Space Between Men
$20.00 Add to cartA poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker
“Willis’ poetic voice is brimming with- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Willis, Mia S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 143138103
- Language: English
