Poets
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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
$35.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 006621131X
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$25.00 Read moreJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0393248526
- Language: English
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Misssettl
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry
Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism i
- Author: Hilliard, Kamden Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621408
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
$20.00 Add to cartDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize–now in one collectible volume
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to l- Series: American Poets Project #19
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1931082871
- Language: English
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Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
$18.99 Read moreFrom award-winning team Suzanne Slade and Cozbi A. Cabrera, Exquisite is a picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize.
A 2021 Coretta- Author: Slade, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1419734113
- Language: English
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The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir
$21.99 Add to cart“Utterly captivating and resonant.” —Chicago Review of Books
“Gorgeously told.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Resonant. . . . Engagingly delivered, candid reflections on heritage and identity.” —Kirkus- Author: Loeb, Davon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1952271746
- Language: English
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Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough
$18.00 Add to cartOF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS?
An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist.
In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wa… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Tran Myhre, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1638340099
- Language: English
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart#4 on The New York Times‘ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a ge- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107798
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$29.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496883
- Language: English
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
$30.99 Add to cartDuring her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of
- Author: De Veaux, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329356
- Language: English
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A Burst of Light and Other Essays
$24.95 Read more“Lorde’s words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation Nat- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486818993
- Language: English
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade–Harlem and- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015498
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman: A Life
$18.99 Add to cart“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking–hugely human, enormously attractive.” —Newsweek
A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet–his genius, his pas
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kaplan, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0060535113
- Language: English
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Lit
$18.99 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
New York Times Book Review – The New Yorker – Entertainment Weekly – Time – Washington Post – San Francisco Chronicle – Chicago Tribune – Christian Science Monitor – Slate – St
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060596996
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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Story of a Poem: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cart“A document of not only how to make a poem, but how to live in a world where language often fails us.” –Ada Lim, U.S. Poet Laureate
Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and inten… [more below]
- Author: Zapruder, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1951213688
- Language: English
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Toy Fights: A Boyhood
$27.95 Add to cartDon Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent yo
- Author: Paterson, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093625
- Language: English
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Leaving the Atocha Station
$18.00 Add to cartAdam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when
- Author: Lerner, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: August 23, 2011
- ISBN10: 1566892740
- Language: English
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A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
$18.00 Add to cart2009 Caldecott Honor Book
When he wrote poems, he felt as free as the
An ALA Notable Book
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book
A Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book
NCTE Notable Children’s Book- Series: Incredible Lives for Young Readers
- Author: Bryant, Jen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: August 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0802853021
- Language: English
