Poetry
Poetry
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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
$16.00
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Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales
Of all the different sub-genres of oral prose fiction developed by the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among the nonruling stratum of society. Sekoni describes and explains literally what makes the trickster tale a...
$122.00
Sister To Sister Dimensions of a Woman
Poetic Expressions for the hearts of all women.
When every woman recognizes that she is a unique flower created by almighty god to beautify the earth's landscape, every living creature will rejoice.
$15.00
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings
In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of...
$12.95
Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa
Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa is a book that provides knowledge on sixteen long poems from the Ifa literary corpus that serve as the most important genres of Yoruba oral tradition. The work is a meticulous effort of the author...
$35.00
Food For My Flow: A Poetry Collection
“A writer’s pen to paper is like a painter’s brush to canvas or a photographer's lens to his lens, is a world where art meets art.” -Roxanne A. Nickle “I create because my Creator created me in his image, I...
$12.00
Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine...
$19.50
African Poems Volume One: Àṣẹ Òrìṣà!: A Praise Anthology to Yorùbá Orishas, Rituals, Traditions and Wisdom
In the literate tradition of poetry, the poet's appeal to an audience is dual: namely, auditory and visual, the sound of words as spoken, as well as the words as set on paper. Today, in view of the modern world...
$33.00
Women Holding Things
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in...
$35.00
Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of...
$20.95
Outriders Africa: Essays on Exploration and Return
It is Spring 2020, and 10 writers of African heritage, travelling in pairs, set out on journeys across Africa. It is a strange time to be travelling, and the shifting state of the world is reflected in temperature checks at...
$20.95