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Thick With Trouble by Amber McBride 9780143137474
RRP: $23.21$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137474Author Amber McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
City Without People: The Katrina Poems by Niyi Osundare
RRP: $19.34$16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983707912Author Niyi OsundareFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint TradeselectPublisher TradeselectWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 12mm -
I Am No Battlefield but a Forest of Trees Growing by Elvis Alves 9780999513415
RRP: $19.29$11.73This collection is a meditation on the relationship between the life of faith and the affairs of the world?a world that appears more fragmented even with the promise of technology to bridge communities. The poems remind us of our role as agents of change... -
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer by Quincy Troupe 9780810138995
$27.43If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery... -
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker 9781947793187
RRP: $21.87$13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793187Author Morgan ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Gary Jackson 9781555975722
RRP: $21.93$12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975722Author Gary JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 156mm *... -
The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374536572
RRP: $14.18$11.11If I am not Ulysses, l am / his dear, ruthless half-brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks. And Ulysses (or his half-brother) is but one of the characters Komunyakaa conjures over the course... -
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson 9780374537289
RRP: $18.06$10.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537289Author Ishion HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
From the Devotions by Carl Phillips 9781555972639
RRP: $14.18$9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for United States National Book Awards: Poetry 1998.Book InformationISBN 9781555972639Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Graywolf Press,U... -
Glitter Road by January Gill O'Neil 9781960327017
RRP: $19.35$14.64A beautiful portrait of how joy is an act of resistance. “My poems brought me to Oxford, Mississippi a.k.a. the velvet ditch: / a place you can fall into, get comfortable among confederate rebels,” writes January Gill O’Neil in her stunning new... -
The Gleaming of the Blade by Christian J Collier 9781949344301
$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949344301Author Christian J CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Bull City PressPublisher Bull City Press -
Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones 9781938235269
RRP: $14.18$13.31Magic City Gospel is a love song to Birmingham, the Magic City of the South. In traditional forms and free verse poems, 2015 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award-winner Ashley M. Jones takes readers on an historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey... -
Marrow: Poems by Darlene Anita Scott 9780813183626
RRP: $23.22$20.12"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain Of it say moms everywhere & Even if kids choose it last; They choose it, as loyal To its sugar as any." When authorities converged on the Peoples Temple Agricultural... -
Marrow: Poems by Darlene Anita Scott 9780813183619
RRP: $34.83$29.10"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain Of it say moms everywhere & Even if kids choose it last; They choose it, as loyal To its sugar as any." When authorities converged on the Peoples Temple Agricultural... -
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu 9780691239026
RRP: $64.50$50.46The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an... -
Can I Kick It? Idris Goodwin 9781642590272
RRP: $19.34$6.37"Can I kick it?" "Yes you can!" -A Tribe Called Quest Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin's work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the... -
Discordant by Richard Hamilton 9781637680735
RRP: $18.06$15.82Lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices—from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism. Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a searing examination of injustice both within the United... -
Bottle of Life by Truth Thomas 9780981858425
$7.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981858425Author Truth ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedPublisher Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 210g -
Dated Emcees Chinaka Hodge 9780872867024
RRP: $12.89$8.71Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop--and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators,... -
City of the Future Sesshu Foster 9781885030559
RRP: $21.92$15.05Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster's childhood, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on... -
Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy 9781597094689
$23.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597094689Author Camille DungyFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 159g -
the delicacy of embracing spirals mimi tempestt 9780872869257
RRP: $16.76$11.13the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens. "mimi tempestt writes like a third testament in which God (or our understanding) finally... -
The Beloved Community by Patricia Spears Jones 9781556596667
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596667Author Patricia Spears JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston 9781642594034
RRP: $49.02$33.06Dopplegangbanger, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.Book InformationISBN... -
Kneeling: Poems and Verses Transcending the Turbulent '60s M. Ernest McMillan 9781646052080
RRP: $24.51$16.71From Civil Rights activist and full-time organizer in the Deep South Ernest McMillan: a collection of poems and short stories that seeks to explore the dynamics of love. Ernest McMillan began writing essays and short stories in earnest while imprisoned... -
Magnolia Leaves by Mary Weston Fordham 9781513134659
RRP: $10.31$7.10Magnolia Leaves (1897) is a collection of poems by Mary Weston Fordham. Published toward the end of her life, Fordham’s only collection appeared in print with an introduction by Booker T. Washington, who saw in its author an undeniable gift which could... -
The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood by Kamau Daáood 9780872864412
RRP: $18.05$11.95A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word movement, these poems soar and sway with the syncopation and melodies of jazz. Portraits, chronicles, incantations and invocations, drawn from a lifetime of prolific activity. From his early... -
A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval 9781642591033
RRP: $54.18$36.40Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world. Chicago is the city of... -
It's not over once you figure it out by Isaac Pickell 9781939568632
RRP: $16.76$11.13A linguistically experimental and socially engaged collection of poems that examines questions of colorism within an economically driven world.In a collection of poems that collapses the spectrum between the theoretical and the personal, that is at once... -
Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae 9781642599497
RRP: $67.08$44.75In 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 for... -
ballast by Quenton Baker 9781642599480
RRP: $67.08$44.75A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the... -
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud by Dustin Kyle Pearson 9781950774593
RRP: $16.76$11.13In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship. The poems in Dustin Pearson's A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two... -
Echo's Errand by Keith Jones 9781939568519
RRP: $15.47$10.32Lyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity's dark history. These poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already "known" world. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, the... -
henceforce – A Travel Poetic by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard 9781632430687
RRP: $14.19$12.10In henceforce, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard’s poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard’s poems explore air travel, transcontinental... -
Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel 9780300268003
RRP: $38.70$37.73The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds "Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and... -
Duende: Poems, 1966-now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451
RRP: $45.15$29.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781644210451Author Quincy TroupeFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr 9780393352733
RRP: $21.92$21.03This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize- winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other... -
Speak from Here to There Kwame Dawes 9781845233198
RRP: $12.89$9.02During 2015 and 2016, two poets from opposite sides of the world, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, exchanged poems in two cycles, Echoes and Refrains and Illuminations, that were in constant dialogue even as they remained defined and shaped by the details... -
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker 9781941040539
RRP: $21.87$13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040539Author Morgan ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 127mm... -
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route T.j. Anderson Iii 9781632430670
RRP: $18.06$15.82Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in Devonte Travels the Sorry Route, has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history and...