Poetry
Poetry
Green of All Heads
Publisher : BOA Editions Ltd.
Publication date : September 16, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 124 pages
ISBN-10 : 1960145711
ISBN-13 : 9781960145710
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Once
This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year...
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How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy—reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that...
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How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy—reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that...
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This...
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
Walker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the last three decades. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text...
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No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism. No Sweet Without Brine is both a...
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
Vivid poems of “breakdown and spiritual disarray.” Writing these, Walker says, “led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.” What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness...
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Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine—the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen,...
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Every Where Alien
“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space for a truth that is sometimes...
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We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
“WE WANTOUR BODIES BACK URGES BLACK WOMEN TO DEMAND BETTER FROM MEN.” -ESSENCE “MASTERPOET JESSICA CARE MOORE GIFTS US THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF SHARP, SMART ANDDEFIANT PIECES.” -MS. MAGAZINE BOOKS BYBLACK WOMEN WE CAN’T WAIT TO READ IN 2020 -REFINERY29...
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Phases: Poems
In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full. Both intimate...
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Stages: Poems
“Tramaine Suubi is a visionary love poet, and stages makes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, embodied tenderness is a force capable of moving us...
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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...
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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives....
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Revolutionary Petunias
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and...
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Run, Shepherds, Run: Poems for Advent and Christmas
The Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and the twelve days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know...
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I Pray in Poems: Meditations on Poetry and Faith
I pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and Christian faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about Christian living. Readers will encounter authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and...
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The Hound of Heaven (Revised)
The Classic Victorian poem about Christian angst that still speaks to modern audiences. Accompanied by illustrations that deepen the meaning of the poem.A portable paperback version of a long poem by the Catholic Victorian poet Francis Thompson that grapples with...
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As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth: And Other Poems
A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou’s poetry...
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Africa Wakeup - O Bosso!!!
‘Africa Wakeup – O BOSSO!!!’ presents through a poetic format a broad overview of the existential issues facing Africa and Africans. The choice of poetry is intended for awareness raising, self-determination, and sustainable psychological, sociocultural and ecological transformations. ‘Africa Wakeup...
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AFTER AFRICA Collected Poems
This compilation of poems is a result of ten years work since leaving Africa. It shares the journey, from memory and loss into discovery and new voice. The writing is mostly chronological and is taken from the eight anthologies Bart...
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AFRIKA CRYISIS (Africa Crisis)
Don't fool yourself. Africa is not a hopeless case. Africa is not a country, but a continent with fifty-four countries. The West would like to perpetuate a stereotype to justify neo-colonialism to pacify their curious people. The East is joining...
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An Anthology out of South Africa: Jackey Mukhawana and Friends
This is an anthology of plays, stories and poems written by high school students in Letaba, Limpopo, South Africa.
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Africa Unity
A book calling the brotherhood and family for Africa prosperity bin social, politics and economics
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Africa Poems
For almost fifty years Welsh writer Dave Lewis has been fascinated with Africa; the land, the people and its wildlife. Throughout his writing there have always been references to the great continent and so here together in one volume is a small ‘selected...
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Africa Poems
"Africa Poems features the awesome continent of Africa, mankind’s cradle; as well ashistories about the Serengeti and Sahara; some of Africa’s colorful leaders and explorers; the tragic genocides in Rwanda and Sudan; and the disasters in Zaire and Somalia."
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Africa's Cry
THE ENSLAVEMENT AND DIASPORA OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE MANIFESTED LIGHT ON OUR PAINS, STRUGGLES, SUFFERINGS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. WE WERE BROUGHT AS SLAVES, STRIPPED OF AND STRIPPED FROM EVERYTHING WE KNEW. THE RESILIENCE OF OUR PEOPLE HAS EMPOWERED US TO...
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Africa, A New Dawn
Africa, A New Dawn; as the world teetered on the brink ofcollapse, Africa rose up to become the shining beacon of hopefor all humanity. A new era dawned on the continent, and thepeople of Africa were transformed from hapless victims...
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