Poetry
Poetry
Born in a Second Language
Born in a Second Language investigates how Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence,...
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Ammunition: Poetry and Other Raps
Ammunition: Poetry and Other Raps
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Publisher : African Tree Press (April 3, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 86 pages
ISBN-10 : 1640930418
ISBN-13 : 978-1640930414
$19.95
Breaking Silence
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Publisher : Salonica Press (June 11, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 72 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592321232
ISBN-13 : 978-1592321230
$20.00
Amiri Baraka: The Voice of a People (bilingual English - Greek)
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Publisher : Salonica Press (September 1, 2014)
Language : Greek
Paperback : 42 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592325416
ISBN-13 : 978-1592325412
$9.95
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In his greatly anticipated new full-length book of poetry, the first since "The Dead Emcee Scrolls" in 2006, the poet laureate of hip-hop (CNN) Saul Williams presents his ideas, observations, realizations, dreams, and questions about the state of America, the...
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FOREST PRIMEVAL: POEMS
"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in...
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WISDOM TEETH
PRE ORDER AVAILABLE! Derrick Weston Brown is a writer and the poet-in-residence at Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant. His work has appeared in the New Orleans Time-Picayune and the Washington Post as well as in such literary journals as...
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CONVERSATION PIECES: POEMS THAT TALK TO OTHER POEMS
An utterly delightful collection of responses to poems written across the centuries, these modern poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses...
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S O S: POEMS 1961-2013
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka--"whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others" ("New York Times")--was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the...
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HONEST ENGINE: POEMS
In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but...
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EVEN THE STARS LOOK LONESOME
I have written of the black American experience, which I know intimately. I am always talking about the human condition in general and about society in particular. What it is like to be human, and American, what makes us weep,...
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The 42 Precepts of Maat and Their Foundation in the Philosophy of Righteous Action
This manual is designed for use with the 1998 Maat Philosophy Class conducted by Dr. Muata Ashby. This is a detailed study of Maat Philosophy. It contains a compilation of the 42 laws or precepts of Maat and the corresponding...
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. The former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos, McGhee has drafted legislation, testified before Congress and contributed regularly to news shows including NBC's Meet the Press. She now chairs the board...
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THE POETRY OF PABLO NERUDA
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo...
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ABSOLUTE TRUST IN THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH: NEW POEMS
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple" gives readers her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" ("The Washington Post"). Product details Publisher...
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HUGHES: POEMS
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail...
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MAMA PHIFE REPRESENTS: A MEMOIR (BREAKBEAT POETS)
Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother’s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning. Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments...
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