African American & Black

A deft, musical debut poetry collection about the disabling effects of illness, rupture, and inheritance—informed both by Yoruba divinatory systems and violent Western medical understandings of the Black body. If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819501196Author A B SpellmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988382096Author Clara Rose ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Green Writers PressPublisher Green Writers Press

These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888975886Author Paul Laurence DunbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593796894Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

‘A writer who never loses their way’ New York TimesA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home.Written after two years of artistic silence, during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310460923Author Lecrae MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556597039Author Danusha LamrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender, and working class studies. African American children's poetry reveals legacies of segregation, the Great Migration north,...

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so. While some have observed this rise and noted its connection to historical figures,...

For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, in...

Glance, the second collection of poetry by Chanda Feldman, explores the experiences of a Black and white and Jewish American family that moves abroad to find respite from contemporary racial violence. Spanning diverse landscapes in Israel and the Middle...