African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242681Author Claude McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over, of Parker's extraordinary lyric gifts' Meghan O'RourkeMAGICAL NEGRO is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an...

'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375504068Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943735198Author Rudy FranciscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button Poetry

The poems of Reginald Shepherd's third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues and fragmented stories), and the dazzling extravagances...

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his...

From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at...

An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard's long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University...

In Urban Tumbleweed Harryette Mullen, a critically acclaimed poet and winner of the GBP50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize, explores the space where both the city and natural world collide. Offering a stark and original commentary on the Los Angeles landscape,...

Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art."Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance. . . ...

How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine."...

Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere, four police officers enter a phone store, concrete pavements hang overhead. Phillips ruminates on violins...

The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire-physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068533Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm

From best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning. The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912658Author Clint SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999588908Author Tene EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint The Good Quote PublishingPublisher The Good Quote Publishing

Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize-now in one collectible volume "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596353Author June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679439240Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 172mm...

Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi...

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681884Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Jericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important voices in US poetry, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to...

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant and revisits kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now...

"I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn."We've all been paper before. We've all been fragile. Leaflike and gently blowing, enough to create stories or build fires. We go through life like that. We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536669Author Kevin YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 1170Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Daughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our...

An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a comprehensive selection of the iconic writer's beloved poetry that features his unique rhythm and famous dialect. His work is a beautiful and critical examination of the human spirit. Paul Laurence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450109Author Danez SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 163mm *...

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.This most intense of the riots of the USA's 'Red...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793804Author Khadijah QueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101911204Author Robin Coste LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...