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By: Clark, Tiana
Scorched Earth: Poems
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- Author: Clark, Tiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668052075
- Language: English
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By: Giovanni, Nikki
A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter
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The 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

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- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0062399454
- Language: English
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By: Giovanni, Nikki
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
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“One of her best collections to date.” —Essence

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature t… [more below]
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 60099534
- Language: English
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By: Giovanni, Nikki
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
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The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life–especially Black life–in America. One of the fo

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- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0062562886
- Language: English
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By: Seibles, Tim
Hurdy-Gurdy
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“From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we w… [more below]
- Series: CSU Poetry Series #38
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0914946986
- Language: English
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By: Chapman-Varela, Franceli
Between Spaces
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Step into the intimate world of “Between Spaces,” Franceli Chapman-Varela’s debut poetry collection that captures the essence of life’s moments in verse. Each poem is a journey-a gentle exploration of

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- Author: Chapman-Varela, Franceli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990560109
- Language: English
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By: Walrond, Brad
Every Where Alien
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“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space f

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- Author: Walrond, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063377993
- Language: English
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By: Lam?ris, Danusha
Blade by Blade
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Blade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.

Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the b… [more below]
- Author: Lam?ris, Danusha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597037
- Language: English
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By: Gorman, Amanda
For There Is Always Light: A Journal
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An inspirational journal filled with rousing quotes from Presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman’s #1 New York Times bestsellers The Hill We Climb and Call Us What We Carry.

For there i

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- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0593796896
- Language: English
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By: St Negritude, Toussaint
Mountain Spells: Poems
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Former poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones t

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- Author: St Negritude, Toussaint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1578692008
- Language: English
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By: Rankine, Claudia
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass

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- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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By: Hughes, Langston
Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
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From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0375405518
- Language: English
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By: Wilkinson, Crystal
Perfect Black
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Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakenin

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- Author: Wilkinson, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0813151163
- Language: English
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By: Angelou, Maya
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
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This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.

In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Chr

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- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400065585
- Language: English
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By: Hughes, Langston
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
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Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books

From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati

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- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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By: Germain, Jacqui
Bittering the Wound
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A firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.

Jacqui Germain’s debut collection, Bittering the Wound, is a first-person retelling o

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- Author: Germain, Jacqui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1637680562
- Language: English
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By: Hamilton, Richard
Discordant
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Lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices–from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism.

Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a sear

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- Author: Hamilton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637680732
- Language: English
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By: Geter, Hafizah Augustus
Un-American
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Poems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?

2021 PEN Open Book Finalist
2021 NAACP Image Award Finalist, Poetry
2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, Longlist

Dancing between lyr

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- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Geter, Hafizah Augustus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0819579815
- Language: English
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By: Goodly, Nicholas
Black Swim
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In Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness.

This stunning debut collection is at once “forged from the hurt parts of the ground,” and “proof of a miracle,

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- Author: Goodly, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596510
- Language: English
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By: Williams, Renaada
Find Her. Keep Her.
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Gripping and poignant, this new collection of poetry from bestselling author Renaada Williams offers a raw view of the world from her unique perspective.

Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deep

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- Author: Williams, Renaada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 152487390X
- Language: English