Poetry
Poetry
Always Remembering: Heartfelt Advice for Your Entire Life
The poems and teachings of a beloved Buddhist master, vividly presented so that readers feel they are listening to the precious and renowned teachings of His Holiness directly—and learning how to live with more joy and ease.His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok...
$21.95
Treat or Trick - Halloween and Opposite Day Board Book
Halloween and Opposite Day fall on the same date this year! Find out how the fun-loving monsters on Full Moon Lane celebrate in this book of opposites, treats, tricks, and surprises! This book is SPOOKTACULAR because: Learning about opposites builds language and...
$10.99
Ai Qing: Selected Poems
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of the most influential poets...
$24.00
Everything Yearned For: Manhae's Poems of Love and Longing
Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945). Manhae is a political and cultural hero in Korea, and his works are studied by college students and school children alike.Everything...
$15.00
How Love is Made
You will smile. You may cry. But what you'll definitely do is hug your children that little bit longer. This is the ultimate book about love.What is love? And whatever does it mean when we share our love for others?Two...
$18.95
woke up no light: poems
A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, Californiawoke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation...
$28.00
We Alive, Beloved: Poems
NYT Bestselling Author Frederick Joseph explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Black, highlighting the hope that can be found in childhood,...
$16.98
WATCHNIGHT
In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of...
$17.95
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability...
$17.98
Skip Tracer (Coming soon-July 23, 2024)
An innovative memoir―composed of poems, prose, and photographs―that engages with the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, cultural identity, music, and masculinity, by a poetry legend. Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system”...
$20.00
Silver: Poems
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.This beautiful, slender collection―small and weighted like a coin―is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as...
$26.00
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems (Coming Soon– August 6, 2024)
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that’s based on human...
$26.00
Red, White & Verse: Our Myths, Legends & Stories
America—the beautiful, brave, and bold. By depicting our nation’s long legacy of inspiring figures, landmarks, and events, this poetry collection enlivens modern perceptions of the stories all Americans are raised on. Even more notably, it rejuvenates our sense of connection...
$24.98
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose. In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the...
$17.00
Instructions for the Lovers
A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do," writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions...
$17.95
Good Monster
With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body’s capacity to cage and cradle sadness. Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection “voyage[s] the...
$17.00
Black Bell
Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity. Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins’s Black Bell continues...
$22.00
Another Land of My Body
Ephemeral yet tangible, bridging the delicate border between understanding and awe, Rodney Terich Leonard’s poems live in the world even as they leave it, clinging like “a ribbon in the sand / Captivated by your ankle,” that “Bojangles next to...
$17.95
Sugar Pie Lullaby: The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love
Celebrate family love with this heartwarming and soulful bedtime book perfect for toddlers 1-3! Shoo-be-do-wop along with your little one as you introduce them to the legendary music of the Motown era. Heartfelt text and whimsical illustrations will touch the...
$14.99
Saturday
In this warm and tender story by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Thank You, Omu!, join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together.Today would be special. Today would be...
$18.99
Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén (paperback)
In calling this collection Yoruba from Cuba, a phrase from the poem 'Son Número 6', the translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillén's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. His selection shows Guillén constantly...
$22.95
Very Young Poets
A very simple set of instructions for young people who are trying to write poetry.
$10.00
How to Sing a Song (Coming soon-October 1, 2024)
This third book by the team that created the New York Times bestselling How to Read a Book and How to Write a Poem celebrates the magic of listening to the song that echoes inside you, and letting your music ring out. Hush. Now, turn up...
$19.99
Black Star (The Door of No Return series, 2)- Coming soon, September 24, 2024
The riveting second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Door of No Return trilogy stars Kofi’s granddaughter, Charley, who’s set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to...
$17.99
the little book of e (Coming soon-September 24, 2024)
The poet lives inside and outside of life.In the little book of e poet E. Ethelbert Miller embraces the Japanese poetic form of haiku to comment on our contemporary world. Written during the pandemic Miller’s poems follow in the tradition of Basho...
$16.00
The River Is My Ocean (coming soon-August 27, 2024)
A grandmother and granddaughter share a magical trip to the Hudson River affirming intergenerational love and the power of water in this heart-song of a picture book.Every day, Abuela misses the ocean in Puerto Rico. But on Saturdays, when the...
$18.99
Sonnets for a Missing Key (coming soon, August 20, 2024)
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre...
$16.95
Every Where Alien (coming soon-August 13, 2024)
ISBN: 9780063377998ISBN 10: 0063377993Imprint: AmistadOn Sale: August 13, 2024
$17.99
Magic Enuff: Poems
Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis. “God can stay asleep / these women in my life are magic enuff”An electrifying...
$17.00
The Black Sons of God
Estella explores the affinity of God to the lives of black men who are eagerly sacrificed and forgotten by society for no fault of their own.
$10.00