African American & Black

Twenty-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...

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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.

Dopplegangbanger, 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...

From 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 (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...

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 for...

A 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...

Known 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...

A 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...

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 for...

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...

In 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...

Lyrically 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...

In 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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...

This 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...

During 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...

Apologies 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, 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...

Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down...

The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York's Staten Island, where they move through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts-of a dead lover, of a friend lost to suicide, of a dog with glistening eyes. Marvin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486852027Author Countee CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes "a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780399147203Author Cornelius EadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465080Author Amanda GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2020. Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781556594861Author Jericho BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374607678Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772015164Author Otoniya J. Okot BitekFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555697Author Shawn R. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647506544Author Destiny GilchristFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

apocrifa imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, sex, relationships, and affection that do not...

Magnolia 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...

Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part...

Cartoon characters are routinely tossed off cliffs, shot, exploded, have their limbs thrown about. They return for the next episode intact. Cartoon Logic, Cartoon Violence is a meditation on being a creator while feeling utterly like a caricature-a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605830544Author Susan Jaffe TaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Grolier ClubPublisher Grolier ClubWeight(grams) 216g