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Poetry
Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on Hiv/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate...
$15.95
Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure
The poems in this collection address the cultural and spiritual needs of Black people. In Dawnsong! Toure successfully develops a heroic poetry that creates its own artistic matrix. In these poems Toure takes the reader back to ancient Egypt and,...
$12.95
Dark Convicts
It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from...
$31.00
Counting Descent
Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards 'One Book One New Orleans' 2017 Book Selection Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New...
$24.99
Counting Descent
Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards 'One Book One New Orleans' 2017 Book Selection Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New...
$17.00
Complete Poems
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast...
$37.95
Complete Poems
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast...
$143.75
Canticles I: (MMXVI): (MMXVI) (217) (Essential Poets series)
Book I of The Canticles puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In...
$25.95
Canticles I: (MMXVI): (MMXVI) (217) (Essential Poets series)
Book I of The Canticles puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In...
$25.00
The Black Surrealists
In their rebellion against Western civilization, the European surrealists contested their own society, of which, black surrealists were subjected to even harsher and shared the same dreadful racial memory of the slave ship. Black surrealists would strive to completely eradicate...
$116.99
All The Names Given: Poems
A Guardian Best Book of the Year Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award “Exquisite.” ―The New York Times Book Review “Brave, tender and generous. . . . A haunting study of what we can find in the...
$16.95
Whereas: Poems
Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What...
$16.00
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry...
$18.99
$15.00
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears And Laughter
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and...
$16.99
$12.99
A Child's Anthology of Poetry
A timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages—an indispensable introduction to literature and life that brings together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry. The simple pleasures of reading and...
$19.99
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The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the...
$18.99
Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Publisher : Cassava Republic Press (February 22, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 1913175251
ISBN-13 : 978-1913175252
$20.95
Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company (May 23, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 031641722X
ISBN-13 : 978-0316417228
$28.00
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (June 6, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 1324050934
ISBN-13 : 978-1324050933
$26.95
Unraveling: Poems
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 8, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524870552
ISBN-13 : 978-1524870553
$16.99
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Publisher : Knopf (December 6, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524732583
ISBN-13 : 978-1524732585
$35.00
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Publisher : Graywolf Press (October 5, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1644450674
ISBN-13 : 978-1644450673
$26.00
Stones: Poems
Publisher : Knopf (September 28, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524732567
ISBN-13 : 978-1524732561
$27.00
Somebody Else Sold the World
Publisher : Penguin Books (July 6, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 0143136445
ISBN-13 : 978-0143136446
$18.00
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Publisher : Amistad (March 14, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063221713
ISBN-13 : 978-0063221710
$16.99
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (September 8, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1324004614
ISBN-13 : 978-1324004615
$16.95
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (August 17, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0393867773
ISBN-13 : 978-0393867770
$26.95
If We Must Die: The Essential Claude McKay
Publisher : Ecco (June 28, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063137887
ISBN-13 : 978-0063137882
$16.99
I Am the Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
Publisher : Sourcebooks (February 2, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 1728245079
ISBN-13 : 978-1728245072
$14.99
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Publisher : Amistad (July 4, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063278197
ISBN-13 : 978-0063278196
$28.99