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HEAVENLY VERSES
Heavenly Verses is a collection of poetry created from an overwhelming desire to share the love of Jesus Christ with the world. It encompasses the forms of haiku, traditional, and freestyle verses. Most of all, it affirms the beliefs of...
$10.49
FINGERNAILS ACROSS THE CHALKBOARD: POETRY AND PROSE ON HIV/AIDS FROM THE BLACK DIASPORA
Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate...
$19.98
GROUNDWORK: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF DON L. LEE/HAKI R. MADHUBUTI FROM 1966-1996 (COMING SOON)
Thirty years of poems and a few essays of Don L. Lee beginning in the militant Black Arts Movement and metamorphosing into the more mature yet critical voice of Lee as Haki R. Madhubuti. The subject is consistently political and...
$30.00
QUILTING THE BLACK-EYED PEA: POEMS AND NOT QUITE POEMS
In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between mothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more. Product details Publisher...
$15.93
SONATA MULATTICA: A LIFE IN FIVE MOVEMENTS AND A SHORT PLAY
The son of a white woman and an “African Prince,” George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) travels to Vienna to meet “bad-boy” genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer’s subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with...
$16.95
THE MAVERICK ROOM
A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty.And yet another anthem and yet another heavenand yet another party wants you.Wants you wants you wants you.―from "Groovallegiance" In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, "Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show...
$15.00
COOLING BOARD: A LONG-PLAYING POEM
In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Douglas uses persona poetry to explore the personal and professional struggles of soul legend Donny Hathaway in his debut collection Cooling Board: a Long-Playing Poem....
$19.95
GOSPEL
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Lambda Literary Award finalist. GOSPEL is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this passionate follow-up to 2005's Lambda Literary Award finalist, WHERE THE APPLE FALLS, Bashir's poems challenge truth to stare down...
$15.00
THE PROSAIC SOUL OF NIKKI GIOVANNI
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the...
$14.95
SHAHID READS HIS OWN PALM
Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom....
$15.36
THE HEADLESS SAINTS
Poetry. African American Studies. "Myronn Hardy's THE HEADLESS SAINTS is a book comprised of lyrical epiphanies that embrace the everyday and the mythical, and there is no way to escape the full thrust of these marvelous poems. The tropical feel...
$14.00
LIP GLOSS AND BATTLE BOOTS (Coming Soon)
Award winning poet Aisha Ms. Brown Johnson , and freelance journalist Candace Daki Simmons merge the worlds of literature, hip hop, and popular culture in their new book, Lip Gloss & Battle Boots: A Handbook for Lovers and WarriorsLip Gloss...
$20.00
THE ART OF THE POETIC LINE
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens this provocative book with that essential statement. Through a range of examples―from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück―Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic,...
$13.99
MOTHER: A CRADLE TO HOLD ME
With her signature eloquence and heartfelt appreciation, renowned poet and national treasure Maya Angelou celebrates the first woman we ever knew: Mother. “You were always the heart of happiness to me,” she acknowledges in this loving tribute, “Bringing nougats of...
$14.00
KILLING MEMORY, SEEKING ANCESTORS
Written in the tradition and style of the Black Arts Movement, this collection contains lyrical poems, laced with satirical allusions and political exhortations to Black readers. Product details Paperback : 58 pages ISBN-10 : 0883780933 Reading age : 14 - 17 years Item...
$7.99
RUN TOWARD FEAR: NEW POEMS AND A POETS HANDBOOK (COMING SOON)
Run Toward Fear offers readers a mixture of poems that challenge and cause both reflection on and questioning about many headline issues that have launched this century. Madhubuti includes poignant moving tributes to Jacob Carruthers, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka,...
$6.73
COMMITTED TO BREATHING
Emerging with a varied political sensibility, this book explodes the bourgeois self-indulgence of American culture to give a lambasting critique of its current global ultra-exploration and political repression. Exploring pressing and complicated social issues, the book incorporates humor, invective, and...
$17.03
BUM RUSH THE PAGE: A DEF POETRY JAM
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and...
$14.95
I SHALL NOT BE MOVED: POEMS
The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This new volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Product details Publisher : Random House; Reissue edition (May 13,...
$16.95
THE PANTHER & THE LASH
The poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time.In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always...
$13.96