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AMAZING PEACE: A CHRISTMAS POEM
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look...
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SO FAR, SO GOOD
One glance at So Far, So Good and it becomes evident that this is not merely a collection of a song writer's lyrics. The song-poems of this undisputed "Bluesologist" triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which...
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OLIO
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet,...
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THE BREAKBEAT POETS VOL. 2: BLACK GIRL MAGIC
"[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."--Latino Rebels Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black...
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INCENDIARY ART: POEMS
One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today's literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament...
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PLOT
Her third collection of poetry, Claudia Rankine's Plot is original and enchanting, and the language, as in her acclaimed The End of the Alphabet, never ceases to startle and confront. Plot is a postmodern dialogue about pregnancy and childbirth. Liv,...
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THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from poverty and motherhood to Van Gogh and Mandela is presented in Tupac Shakur's own handwriting on one side of the page, with a typed version...
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I SHALL NOT BE MOVED
In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind....
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EVERYTHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR: AN EXPLORATION OF BEING BLACK IN AMERICA
Dasan Ahanu is a southern storyteller who uses his poetry as a tool for conveying messages and for giving voice to the lived experiences of those who find themselves at the center and in the margins. Everything Worth Fighting For:...
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OUR DEAD BEHIND US: POEMS
In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force activism."
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BLACK NATURE: FOUR CENTURIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN NATURE POETRY
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition...
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MAMA PHIFE REPRESENTS: A MEMOIR (BREAKBEAT POETS)
Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother’s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning. Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments...
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HUGHES: POEMS
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail...
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ABSOLUTE TRUST IN THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH: NEW POEMS
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple" gives readers her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" ("The Washington Post"). Product details Publisher...
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THE POETRY OF PABLO NERUDA
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo...
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. The former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos, McGhee has drafted legislation, testified before Congress and contributed regularly to news shows including NBC's Meet the Press. She now chairs the board...
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The 42 Precepts of Maat and Their Foundation in the Philosophy of Righteous Action
This manual is designed for use with the 1998 Maat Philosophy Class conducted by Dr. Muata Ashby. This is a detailed study of Maat Philosophy. It contains a compilation of the 42 laws or precepts of Maat and the corresponding...
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EVEN THE STARS LOOK LONESOME
I have written of the black American experience, which I know intimately. I am always talking about the human condition in general and about society in particular. What it is like to be human, and American, what makes us weep,...
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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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S O S: POEMS 1961-2013
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" ("New York Times")--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the...
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CONVERSATION PIECES: POEMS THAT TALK TO OTHER POEMS
An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses...
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WISDOM TEETH
PRE ORDER AVAILABLE! Derrick Weston Brown is a writer and the poet-in-residence at Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant. His work has appeared in the New Orleans Time-Picayune and the Washington Post as well as in such literary journals as...
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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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THE 100 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN POEMS
Product details
Publisher : One World; 2010th edition (December 29, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0553385372
ISBN-13 : 9780553385373
$22.99
US(A.)
In his greatly anticipated new full-length book of poetry, the first since "The Dead Emcee Scrolls" in 2006, the poet laureate of hip-hop (CNN) Saul Williams presents his ideas, observations, realizations, dreams, and questions about the state of America, the...
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ANOTHER AMERICA: THE STORY OF LIBERIA AND THE FORMER SLAVES WHO RULED IT
The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would...
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CULTURE SMART!: NIGERIA: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CUSTOMS & CULTURE
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an internal market of 150 million people and an economy growing at around 8 percent a year, is potentially Africa s next powerhouse. It is nearly one and a half times the...
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THERE WAS A COUNTRY
From the legendary author of "Things Fall Apart"--a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war. For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on...
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS
With brilliantly objective scholarship, respected historian and author John G. Jackson reexamines the outdated, racist, and Westernized history of Africa that is still taught in schools, and presents one infinitely more rich, colorful, varied—and truthful. Challenging the standard dehumanizing and...
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