Poetry
Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge
"Asante's book, Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a profound statement of the Afrocentric perspective."...C. Tsehloane Keto, Ph.D., Director of...
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Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems (Paperback)
A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom“Poet m. mick...
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100 Poems That Matter
Publisher : Andrews McNeal Publishing
December 13, 2022
Hardcover : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524858137
ISBN-13 : 9781524858131
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400 YEARS of WITNESSING
What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy's racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing...
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world. Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too...
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End of Empire (Paperback)
From a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relationship with the natural worldA collection as remarkable for the force...
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Death of the First Idea: Poems (Hardcover)
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From Whiting Award–winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic about gender and loveWhen Rickey Laurentiis debuted in...
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boy maybe: poems (Raised Voices) (Paperback)
51 achingly eloquent poems from a young Cave Canem fellow: W. J. Lofton's verses explore Black queer Southern identity, grief, love, and intimacy while enduring and witnessing unfreedom in AmericaW. J. Lofton writes vivid, accessible poems that channel the energy,...
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Blue Opening: Poems (Paperback)
“A profound poetic talent.”―Ada Limón Blue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins―of illness, of language, of the universe―as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site of origin through motherhood. Navigating chronic health challenges...
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A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems (Hardcover)
A Black Doe in the Anthropocene confronts brutal truths unearthed by the present-day descendant of an enslaved American family―author Artress Bethany White. Following her ancestors' enslavement in 1700s Virginia and North Carolina, White weaves together data from Hairston family plantation archives...
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Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy (Hardcover)
The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. Product details Publisher : Knopf Publication...
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The Sport of the Gods (x2)
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (x2 copies)
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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Folks from Dixie
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The uncalled: A novel
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The heart of Happy Hollow
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing...
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100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies (Popular Authors)
Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists of their works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide stresses African American...
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