American - African American & Black
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A Beauty Has Come
$18.95 Read moreA collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space.
A Beauty Has Come takes the reader on a sonic
- Author: Gibson, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621750
- Language: English
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Mistress
$16.00 Read moreThis book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the s… [more below]
- Author: Sebree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936970627
- Language: English
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Up Jump the Boogie
$16.95 Read morePoetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. “Up jumps the boogie. That’s almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn’t have a favorite poet for this year: Now… [more below]
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588500
- Language: English
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I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
$16.00 Read moreThe long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative, detailing the impact of the destructive mass incarceration system.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Browne, Mahogany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595705
- Language: English
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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
$23.32 Read moreThought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.
- Author: Jacques, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814350380
- Language: English
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Moving to Neptune: New & Selected
$22.00 Read moreBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman
- Author: Braggs, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 193469567X
- Language: English
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Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
$17.00 Read more“Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic.” –Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of
- Author: Mullen, Harryette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976565
- Language: English
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Build Yourself a Boat
$16.00 Add to cartBuild Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
- Author: Felix, Camonghne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466116
- Language: English
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
$19.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0062995286
- Language: English
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Maafa
$18.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.
Maafa is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194438023X
- Language: English
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River Hymns
$15.00 Read more“Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new ways to think about family and community, new ways to w
- Series: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
- Author: Daye, Tyree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0983300852
- Language: English
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Florida Water: Poems
$24.95 Add to cartInspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reveal, and unravel us.
An honest meditation on migrating to South
- Author: Monet, Aja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1642599670
- Language: English
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Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
$16.99 Read moreFor fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King’s raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human “curse to feel.” Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of lov… [more below]
- Author: King Holmes, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480950
- Language: English
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Bellocq’s Ophelia
$17.00 Read moreSelected as a “2003 Notable Book” by the American Library Association
In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1555973590
- Language: English
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The New Black
$15.95 Read moreA profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012)
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrat
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 081957287X
- Language: English
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The Absurd Man: Poems
$15.95 Read moreInspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867412
- Language: English
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867773
- Language: English
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Prelude to Bruise
$16.00 Add to cartPraise for Saeed Jones:
“Jones is the kind of writer who’s more than wanted: he’s desperately needed.”—FlavorWire “This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should.” —ElevenEleven- Author: Jones, Saeed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1566893747
- Language: English
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Funeral Diva
$16.95 Add to cartFuneral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
“Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,
- Author: Sneed, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868117
- Language: English
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City of Bones: A Testament
$24.95 Read moreAs if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitut
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0810134624
- Language: English
