African American & Black

the bottom: a theopoetic of the streets explores homelessness; fusing theology, jazz-verse and intimate storytelling into a challenging, raw and beautiful tale. As he journeys 'downward' to build real relationships with sisters and brothers living on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210468Author Quincy TroupeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Seven Stories PressPublisher Seven Stories PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452271Author Kweku AbimbolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596513Author Nicholas GoodlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988732794Author Bertrand BickerstethFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 158g

A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration. In The Geography of Jazz, Moore celebrates jazz music and jazz musicians. Some of the poems address specific events...

This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in which we...

"Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder-a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question." -Kathy Engel This is about what grows...

"Khalisa Rae's Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat is like a newborn scream that's been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a celebration of language and rhythm, and the words on the page run...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594908Author Camille RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g

The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576474Author DaMaris HillFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal narrative, and critical theory, attesting to the...

All the Blood Involved in Love is an urgent and evocative collection-featuring complex and compelling poems about the choices we make surrounding home, freedom, healing, partnership, and family. In a moment of critical struggle for reproductive justice,...

Negritude has been defined by Leopold Sedar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Ba analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the...

This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbeceum, or Cotton Root Bark, which was used by enslaved Black women to induce labor, cure reproductive ailments and end unwanted pregnancies. Through an arrangement of...

A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, Renia White's debut poetry collection pushes against state-sanctioned authority and societal thought while ruminating on Black joy. Renia White's debut poetry collection strikes up a...

Mahogany L. Browne's evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is...

Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation. Women's sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this powerful debut, Britteney Black Rose...

Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body's lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child.Galley...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115830Author Adrian MatejkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as...

In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood and grace-and, in doing so, creates a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996139076Author Yesenia MontillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Willow Books/Aquarius PressPublisher Willow Books/Aquarius PressWeight(grams) 159g

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author's gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing...

WINNER of the JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED for the HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD In this debut collection by African American poet Xandria Phillips, HULL explores emotional impacts of...

Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own...

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole...

In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labour-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593498002Author Alora YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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 9798888975794Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

In Meet Me Halfway—her first solo venture since 2019's Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why—Samantha King Holmes is ready to dive even deeper into the dynamics of love and relationships with an earnestness all her own.Samantha King Holmes is back with Meet Me...

Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva’s poems ask readers to see and...

An intimate and kaleidoscopic entry in the Multiverse series that excavates survival, storytelling, and coming to terms with an unruly mind.In A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, the stakes of writing are also the stakes of living. “Though I no...

A dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinSince the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, in 1999, Terrance Hayes has been one of America's most exciting and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967309Author Ajibola TolaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358566383Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! Publishing