Poetry
Poetry
Ce qui tue l'homme, c'est ce qui sort de sa bouche (French Edition)
In this book, the author immerses us in the freshness of children's imagination - a world in which animals live side-by-side with human beings. Soothed by an oral African culture that proceeds from the depth of ages, Emmanuel Matateyou, as...
$37.50
Campground
Through poetry and fiction that engage the reader's heart and mind, Loretta Burns explores the beauties, perils, and mysteries of day to day life. With a graceful simplicity of style and an often intimate voice, she represents a range of...
$31.00
Cameroon Anthology of Poetry
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a...
$47.00
Breach
Breach draws from the wisdom of Africa and the African human experience to urge reconsideration of conventional notions of a home as sheltered assurance of belonging. Instead, it embraces the notion of not having a home and therefore not belonging,...
$28.00
Born with Voice
Born with Voice examines the psyche and scrape of the victims of various crimes, especially sexual discrimination-cum-exploitation, rape, and the killing of people with albinism. The author digs deeper into the hearts and minds, and plights of victims to inspire...
$38.00
Blot On The Landscape
Blot On The Landscape is John Ngong Kum Ngong's seventh collection of poetry. The central symbol here is 'blot' which takes on complex and fascinating meanings in this rich collection of 42 poems. At a time when concerns for the...
$38.99
Bleeding Red. Cameroon in Black and White
Bill NDI's Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a paragon of socio-political and cultural alertness in...
$41.00
Bites of Insanity
In this collection of poems Nsah Mala casts a critical compassionate gaze at the predicaments in the lives of present day Cameroonians. The poet lambasts power abuse in Cameroon and Africa. He decries the lost glory of traditional values sacrificed...
$38.00
Beware the Drives
This collection of verse, which has mostly short poems, some of which are two-liners, is an outcome of several years of keen observation of the very nature of man. The observation brought this writer to the conclusion that man is...
$37.00
Between Worlds
Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance...
$27.00
The Betrayed Town and Other Poems
Roselyne M. Jua has taught English and American Literature and Creative Writing at the Universities of Yaounde (1986-1993) and Buea (1993-2012). At the University of Buea, she served as Dean of Faculty of Arts from 2010 to 2012. She is...
$40.00
Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology
Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We...
$54.00
Best "New" African Poets 2015 Anthology
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs..., on identity, Africanness (Blackness,...
$46.00
A Basket of Flaming Ashes
Ashuntantang is an extraordinary weaver of words who showcases vivid pictures that compete with 3D simulation. Her greatest asset is her use of the beautiful traditional Cameroonian anchor that evokes folk tales with its moonlight romance and glory. You feel,...
$29.00
Aporia: Lament of an Ambazonian Revolutionary
Aporia is a long prose poem that makes a case for the Ambazonian Revolution. It is my conviction that the task of the genuine intellectual is to speak up when no one dares to speak. When we draw a blank...
$29.00
Anxiety in Mosaic
into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from...
$41.00
The Earth Will Come To Laugh And Feast
The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast is a poetic journey through a carefully curated selection of internationally revered artist,Roger Ballen's photographs. Italian poet, Gabriele Tinti, reflects on Ballen’s images with original texts written in the form of elegies, prayers, and...
$50.00
$40.00
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