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Poetry
BLACK NATURE: FOUR CENTURIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN NATURE POETRY
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition...
$39.95
OUR DEAD BEHIND US: POEMS
In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force activism."
$14.95
EVERYTHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR: AN EXPLORATION OF BEING BLACK IN AMERICA
Dasan Ahanu is a southern storyteller who uses his poetry as a tool for conveying messages and for giving voice to the lived experiences of those who find themselves at the center and in the margins. Everything Worth Fighting For:...
$12.00
I SHALL NOT BE MOVED
In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind....
$12.00
THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from poverty and motherhood to Van Gogh and Mandela is presented in Tupac Shakur's own handwriting on one side of the page, with a typed version...
$14.95
PLOT
Her third collection of poetry, Claudia Rankine's Plot is original and enchanting, and the language, as in her acclaimed The End of the Alphabet, never ceases to startle and confront. Plot is a postmodern dialogue about pregnancy and childbirth. Liv,...
$13.00
INCENDIARY ART: POEMS
One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today's literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament...
$18.95
THE BREAKBEAT POETS VOL. 2: BLACK GIRL MAGIC
"[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."--Latino Rebels Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black...
$19.95
OLIO
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet,...
$25.00
SO FAR, SO GOOD
One glance at So Far, So Good and it becomes evident that this is not merely a collection of a song writer's lyrics. The song-poems of this undisputed "Bluesologist" triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which...
$14.95
AMAZING PEACE: A CHRISTMAS POEM
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look...
$9.95
PHENOMENAL WOMAN: FOUR POEMS CELEBRATING WOMEN
Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled...
$11.95
FULL WOMAN, FLESHLY APPLE, HOT MOON: SELECTED POEMS OF PABLO NERUDA
Praise for Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rilke: ""Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced.""-- Chicago Tribune ""This is, without any doubt, the best English rendering of Rilke. It is as faithful to the original as...
$14.99
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th...
$9.95
THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful...
$20.00
THE WEARY BLUES
Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of "The Weary Blues" reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a...
$26.00
THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI: 1968-1998 (PB)
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967-1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men,...
$15.95
THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS: THE LOST TEACHINGS OF HIP-HOP AND CONNECTED WRITINGS
In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a can of spray paint. His quest to decipher this...
$13.95
AND STILL I RISE
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
Product details
Publisher : Random House; 1st edition (August 12, 1978)
Language : English
Hardcover : 64 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780394502526
ISBN-13 : 978-0394502526
$18.00
DON'T CALL US DEAD: POEMS
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an...
$16.00
SELECTED POEMS
This volume brings together the best of the Pulitzer Prize winner's work from three earlier books now out of print, and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book form. The classic volume by the...
$12.99
THE BLACK UNICORN: POEMS
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."...
$15.95
A GOOD CRY: WHAT WE LEARN FROM TEARS AND LAUGHTER
One of America's most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed...
$19.99
POEMS: MAYA ANGELOU
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful...
$16.00
HIM BY Pierre Alex Jeanty
Publisher : Jeanius Publishing LLC
Paperback : 190 pages
ISBN-10 : 1949191001
$14.00
HER II By Pierre Alex Jeanty
Publisher : Jeanius Publishing LLC
Paperback : 164 pages
ISBN-10 : 099742656X
$12.00