Cultural Region/Caribbean
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Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems–an American master at the height of his talent
The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0062661183
- Language: English
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Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire
$20.00 Add to cartNostalgia for Death is the sole book of Villaurrutia, who was one of the few openly homosexual Latin American writers and one of Mexico’s most important authors of the early twentieth century. “The la… [more below]
- Author: Villaurrutia, Xavier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1992
- ISBN10: 1556590539
- Language: English
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartIn modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere–old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romantic… [more below]
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061712744
- Language: English
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Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d’Un Retour Au Pays Natal
$23.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1939, Aim? C?saire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N?gritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new… [more below]
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 10 2017
- ISBN10: 082236896X
- Language: French
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
$6.95 Read moreBorn in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated from her parents and siblings at the age of twelve. Subj… [more below]
- Series: African American
- Author: Prince, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 69
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486438635
- Language: English
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A Cruising Guide To The Northern Bahamas
$64.95 Add to cartA Cruising Guide to the Northern Bahamas: From Grand Bahamas and the Abacos south to Cat Island, Contains many color charts, photos and loads of current local knowledge makeing this a must-have guide…. [more below]
- Author: Pavlidis, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: August 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1892399288
- Language: English
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The Little Deaths
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the earth and to nature
- Author: Tullis-Bukhari, Mercy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148539
- Language: English
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Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970
$16.00 Add to cartThis bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems
- Series: Neruda, Pablo
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130356
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Sea Change
$19.99 Add to cart“Jorie Graham’s intricate, sophisticated, and mercurial poems have long been one of the splendors of contemporary American literature.” —Village Voice
A poetry collection that shows Pulitzer Prize win
- Author: Graham, Jorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537187
- Language: English
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Piedra de Sol = Sunstone
$13.95 Add to cartPresented in Eliot Weinberger’s excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem “that definitively established Paz as a major international figure” (Sagetrieb). Written… [more below]
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: October 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0811211959
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$23.99 Add to cartDrawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s lifetime of work.
Walcott’s Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his ear- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531110
- Language: English
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My Brother
$17.00 Read moreJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and death
- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09, 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525625
- Language: English
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One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
$22.95 Read more“The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna,” Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the back
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757603
- Language: English
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The Surrender Tree / El Árbol de la Rendición: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas de la Lucha de Cuba Por Su Libertad (Bilingual)
$12.99 Add to cartThe Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle For Freedom / El ?rbol de la rendici?n: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312608713
- Language: English
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El Creacionismo
$18.00 Add to cartChilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s el creacionismo (“Creationism”)-conceived circa 1912-holds that a new object of the imagination is universally translatable because its substance is free of all laws th
- Author: Huidobro, Vicente
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 173287414X
- Language: English
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Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
$32.00 Add to cartA crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico’s 122 years as a colony of the US.
Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and explo- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1568588992
- Language: English
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The Continual Condition: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”
–Joyce Carol Oates
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”
–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of th
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 006177121X
- Language: English
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The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
$9.95 Add to cart“We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and Mar a unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a pa
- Author: Klein, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1608463575
- Language: English
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The Diloggún: The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santería
$49.95 Add to cartThe first book on Santer a’s holiest divination system to thoroughly explore each family of odu and how their actions and reactions affect the spiritual development of the client.
– Includes the major- Author: Lele, Ócha’ni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 28 2003
- ISBN10: 089281912X
- Language: English
