African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592348Author June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1105g

Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anais Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by...

"These sentences-they-will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068644610Format PaperbackImprint The 87 PressPublisher The 87 Press

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.Clint Smith's vibrant...

"To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It's a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wanting out of it."-Reyna Biddy A collection of poetry...

One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This...

For fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King's raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human "curse to feel." Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of love and longing. Born to Love, Cursed to Feel is about...

An award-winning collection from one of America's most beloved twentieth-century poets'The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt' Toni MorrisonLucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished...

"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between." So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashion presence...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322082Author Billy ChapataFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Monarch Publishing, LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957955049Author Stephan LabossiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Stephan Speaks LLC.Publisher Stephan Speaks LLC.Weight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

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,...

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...

Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books-Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed-along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often...

'Essential reading' Roger Robinson'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr'Sure, wise and devastating . . . a joy' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent' Washington PostNobody wrote about...

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an...

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival. "I've decided I can't trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor...

Selected by Sean Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737010319Author Michelle G StradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Michelle G. StradfordPublisher Michelle G. StradfordWeight(grams)...

'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...

Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop's musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of American poets. Edited by poets Kevin Coval, Nate...

Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics-racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy-showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words...

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

From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels...

A poet of existential magnitude, deep intellect and playful subversion, America's Nicole Sealey writes poems that are restless in their empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human. The ranging scope of enquiry...

"'Expect poison of the standing water,' Blake warned, highlighting the dangers of imaginative stagnation. I'm now tempted to believe that Blake himself has sent us Derrick Austin and his remarkable collection, Trouble the Water. At once gospel and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781936919284Author Danez SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint YesYes BooksPublisher YesYes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781934414903Author Lucille CliftonFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint BOA Editions,...

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,...

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of anthems for our time, at turns tender and piercing, and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as...

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 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 9780679764083Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 867gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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...

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...

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago,...

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...