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SOAR: HOW BOYS LEARN, SUCCEED, AND DEVELOP CHARACTER
From a respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues, a “rare book that can bring tears to your eyes while showing the way to deep and meaningful social change” (New York Times bestselling author William...
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING (EXPANDED & REVISED)
Provides writers with step-by-step guidance on every aspect of publishing and marketing a book. This guide also gives up-to-date advice on e-publishing and electronic rights. Appendices list marketing contacts, and other chapters cover production tips, cover design and advertising. Product...
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THE EDUCATION OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE IDEA OF RACE RELATIONS
Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. In The Education of...
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RADICAL INSURGENCIES
In Radical Insurgencies, Molefi Kete Asante has stitched together various social and political concerns with the skill of a quilt maker drawing inspiration from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy. Dr. Nah Dove Africology Temple University Product details Publisher : Universal Write Publications...
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RAISING BLACK GIRLS
Geared toward African American parents, this handbook offers more than 50 tips on successfully guiding girls into womanhood and helping them avoid common pitfalls. The book looks at topics such as education, the definition of beauty, peer pressure, social media,...
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: GEOFFREY CANADA'S QUEST TO CHANGE HARLEM AND AMERICA
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could...
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US(A.)
After four years abroad, Williams returned to the United States and found his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom, guns, cooking shows, dog shows, superheroes, not-so-super politicians—everything that makes up our country. US(a.) is a collection of poems...
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THE 100 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN POEMS
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. A startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects...
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FELON: POEMS
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems―canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace―and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life....
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S O S: POEMS 1961-2013
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume comprises the fullest spectrum of his rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to unpublished pieces...
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LOVE POEMS
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in...
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HEAVEN IS ALL GOODBYES: POCKET POETS NO. 61
This is truly revolutionary poetry. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spills forth from a choir living in oppression and transience. Moments of political and spiritual convergence, surrealism and blunt materiality, gangsterism and its husk, revolution...
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FOREST PRIMEVAL: POEMS
"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in...
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WISDOM TEETH
This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence of urban DC life and redefine personal relationships,...
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CONVERSATION PIECES: POEMS THAT TALK TO OTHER POEMS
Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's...
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EVEN THE STARS LOOK LONESOME
Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she recreates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how...
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HONEST ENGINE: POEMS
In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but...
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POINT BLANK: POEMS
"In Point Blank, we are given an intimate look at one man's inner and outer life, but there's no navel-gazing nonsense. There's always an awareness, implied or explicit, of the sociopolitical crucible. With language both tough-minded and celebratory, Alan King ignites the...
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SKIN, INC.: IDENTITY REPAIR POEMS
Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers Ellis's big, ambitious argument in sound and image for an America whose identity is in need of repair. In lyric sequences and with his own photographs, Ellis traverses the African American and American literary landscapes―along the...
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WHY WAR IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA
It has not Become wise. Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem. Stefano Vitale’s compelling paintings illustrate this unflinching look at war’s destructive nature and unforeseen consequences. Product details Publisher...
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