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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AUDRE LORDE
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."―Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms―beautifully, forcefully―for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."―Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection...
$21.95
THE HILL WE CLIMB - POETRY COLLECTION (Available September 21, 2021)
Including "The Hill We Climb," the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in America poetry. Product details...
$19.99
THE TRADITION
"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."—Craig Morgan Teicher, “'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview” for NPR “A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult...
$17.99
DON'T CALL US DEAD: POEMS
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and...
$16.00
SELECTED POEMS
By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all. In...
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES
Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the...
$21.00
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all...
$12.99
POEMS: MAYA ANGELOU
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our...
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THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful...
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