African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063319172Author April GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Amy M. Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that meditates on the meaning of home and existence. Born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520535Author Monique FerrellFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450953Author Matthew JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888975213Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackImprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle...

Seraphim shares the joyous rhythm that sustains Black womxn.  Seraphim, Angelique Zobitz’s debut collection, radiates with light and wonder. These poems reveal how Black womxn and girls carve out, create, and pass along that lightness in their daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142568Author Morgan ParkerFormat PaperbackImprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433893Author Basie AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling Presse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638298540Author Ambrose Bruce ChimbgandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231989Author Anthony KellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

"One need not be fluent in the language of cricket to enjoy the swift, percussive rhythms of Roger Bonair-Agard's second opus calypso. He has refined his line, composed a pulse upon which he conjures, with a sort of astonishing and tender obligation, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735224275Author Bernard ClayFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Swallow PressPublisher Swallow PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638340843Author Ty ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Button PoetryPublisher Button PoetryWeight(grams) 168g

A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America.   The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the question of how we become who we are. The answers Barnett...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767419Author Taylor ByasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 136g

To foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real.To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and don the lonely pelt.The poems of Alt-Nature move in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976606Author Dexter L BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm *...

Following the Attica Prison uprising in September, 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale's workshop created a space of radical black creativity and...

In Maroon Choreography Fahima Ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of Black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine Black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about...

The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496559Author Bruce JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983009610Author Rashaun AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Royal Blue PublishingPublisher Royal Blue PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967542430Author Frank X WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Old Cove PressPublisher Old Cove PressWeight(grams) 181g

A remarkable and delightful variety of poetic languages is displayed throughout the work: songs, hymns, invective, elegy, sermons, polemic, and prose poetry. It is rich in historical and literary associations and is at the same time accessible to all...

Winner of the 2019 Lilla A. Heston Award Co-winner of the 2018 Ethnography Division's Best Book from the NCA In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of poetry...

Considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina experienced one of the longest and most turbulent Reconstruction periods of all the southern states. After the Civil War, white supremacist leadership in the state...

"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this...

The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh. Though Appalachia's people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with...

The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's Seduction, the ""I"" becomes the ""Eye,"" serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetic music. Elegies and dramatic odes look...

In this collection of essays, interviews, and notes, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets, but also to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711619Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for National Book Awards 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780375709890Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554874Author Mitchell L. H. DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 145g

Heed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of "the bottom" across blackness, sexuality, and the American South. These lyrics of queer desire meet the voices of enslaved ancestors to reckon with a lineage of...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

This 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...

If 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...

Apologies 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