Poetry
Poetry
Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Publication date : July 15, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 86 pages
ISBN-10 : 1646427270
ISBN-13 : 9781646427277
$20.00
$15.00
An Optimism: Poems
Publisher : Persea
Publication date : October 7, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 0892556218
ISBN-13 : 9780892556212
$19.00
$12.00
Death of the First Idea: Poems
Publisher : Knopf
Publication date : September 9, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0593802705
ISBN-13 : 9780593802700
$27.00
$22.00
Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems
Publisher : One World
Publication date : August 5, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0593733991
ISBN-13 : 9780593733998
$17.00
$11.00
Boy Maybe: Poems
ASIN : B0D38FHT7C Publisher : Beacon Press Accessibility : Learn more Publication date : March 25, 2025 Language : English File size : 2.4 MB Screen Reader : Supported Enhanced typesetting :...
$17.00
$12.00
Blue Opening: Poems
Publisher : Tin House Books
Publication date : September 16, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 1963108469
ISBN-13 : 9781963108460
$18.00
$12.00
A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems
ASIN : B0DJHJWL5Y Publisher : The University Press of Kentucky Accessibility : Learn more Publication date : June 17, 2025 Language : English File size : 4.5 MB Screen Reader : Supported Enhanced...
$34.00
$28.00
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
Publisher : Knopf
Publication date : October 7, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524732605
ISBN-13 : 9781524732608
$27.00
$23.00
Ex absurdo sequitur quodlibet
Usually shunned, condemned or narcotised as quickly as acknowledged, the absurd remains nevertheless a large part of reality. Loyal to their poetic pen, Teena and Yanee Dewoo choose to embrace and transcribe a fragment thereof in this book, in the...
$33.00
Epistle to Afrophobic South Africa
When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South Africans and Africans who...
$54.00
Epigrams
Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator, historian of ideas and mentalities and academic is household name in Anglophone Cameroonian poetry. He has held teaching positions in several universities in Australia, France, and elsewhere. He now teaches at...
$41.00
Environmental F(r)iction: The Illusion of Progress / The Progress of Illusion
So much ink has already been spilled on the issues of climate change. In this collection, Bill F. Ndi blends environmental sciences with poetic art in a bid to make the strange ordinary and the ordinary strangely extraordinary. The poems...
$30.00
Eni and Other Poems
Eni kaleidoscopically unveils human intrigues, predicaments and woes. It brings into sharp focus the most dreaded products of cruel oppression, exploitation, and destruction--the worst forms of human degradation and sufferings. However, it also sheds beams of hope, celebrating optimism in...
$29.00
Echoes of a Whisper
Lughano Mwangwegho's Echoes of a Whisper is an imaginative array of poetic verse steeped in Africa and tackling the fraught space of being betwixt and between, within and without, memory and the present. Love runs avidly as a theme throughout and imagery...
$30.99
Echo The Giant
"From 'Ode to Harry' to 'Black on White Screams, Dewoo's poems ripple along psycho-cultural dimensions, where the terseness of her language rumbles, her epigraphic-like renditions compel, and the topicality of her themes flickers as the profane and the sacred roar...
$28.00
New Orleans Pharaoh: A Tribute to Dr. Maurice M. Martinez
This poetry book is a tribute to my father Dr. Maurice M. Martinez, Renaissance Man, Professor Emeritus UNCW, Former Professor Hunter College, CUNY, Protégé of Langston Hughes, Second African American in History to publish a Photobook that also contained Poetry,...
$25.95
Djt Directionless Jumping Train
Through a careful allusive poetic composition process, the poet takes on the aberrant oppression that a mad egocentric individual at the helm of a train forces upon his passengers and not without their complicity, and who while boarding the train...
$26.00
Death of Hardship
Death of Hardship kaleidoscopically unveils human intrigues, predicaments and woes. It brings into sharp focus the most dreaded products of cruel oppression, exploitation, and destruction-the worst forms of human degradation and sufferings. However, it also sheds beams of hope, celebrating...
$41.99
Dangerous Pastime
The best way to understand a people is to live with the people; the best way to live with the people is to share with the people; and the best thing to share with the people is what the people...
$30.00
Crying in Hiccoughs
Crying in Hiccoughs is a graphic presentation of the more realistic phase of Africa's politico-economic and historico-moral evolution in general, and Cameroon's, in particular. From the colonial to the post-independence era, the poet sees nothing worthy of praise-singing and handclapping....
$41.00
The Cowrie Necklace. A Collection of Poems
The Cowrie Necklace is a graphic account of the struggle for meaning in life. The poems are a carefully woven sizzling and cracking attempt to mirror society. The poet runs a long and wide gamut of poetic themes which include...
$41.98
Content of Character: Poetics of Redemption
In Content of Character: Poetics of Redemption, we argue that all that is necessary for evil to thrive in contemporary society is for decent people to do nothing. We contend that silence is not an option in contemporary society where...
$30.00
Companion of Life. Poems from Zimbabwe
This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather,...
$31.98
Coils of Mortal Flesh
The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life....
$37.50
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness a snapshot, richness, and practical potentialities of childhood to...
$33.00
The Chant of Savant
The chant of savant is a philosophical soliloquy that aims to awaken and chastise Africans to know and fight for their rights vis-a-vis humungous resources Africa is endowed with without benefiting from them. Mhango gawks at, and guesstimates on why...
$40.00
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