African American & Black

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951631093Author Adrienne ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Santa Fe Writer's ProjectPublisher Santa Fe Writer's ProjectWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860626Author Chantal GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 295g

Dreaming of Endangered Species explores issues of health and illness, disability and cure, and human frailty and vulnerability in an age of global unease and uncertainty. It maps a tension between the infinite and finite, between the concrete and...

Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an extended contemplation on being that lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both rely on black abjection. Readers find themselves in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938769870Author Carly InghramFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956046106Author Kiki PetrosinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Sarabande BooksPublisher Sarabande BooksWeight(grams) 139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948585699Author Charles CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 136g

Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877) is a collection of poems by A.A. Whitman. A former slave, Whitman worked as a laborer before finding employment as a financial agent and fundraiser for Wilberforce University, the first historically black college owned and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597094474Author Dexter L BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011896Author Kalamu Ya SalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of...

A coming-of-age collection set to the music of the 1980s and 90s. This novel in poetic form tells the story of a young man dealing with the challenges of growing up mixed-race in 1980s suburbia. In this time of change, both for himself and the world...

Lustrous, tender, and expansive, Gold Cure moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American interior, excavating buried histories, legacies of conquest, and the pursuit of shimmering ideals. Ted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130574Author Adrian MatejkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596421Author Jericho BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

A call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predominantly white spaces—anyone who has found themselves...

In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513137179Author Countee CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint West Margin PressPublisher West Margin PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948585026Author Charles CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm *...

Named Best Chicago Poet by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history. Known variously as the Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders or Chi-Raq, Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely...

In Written after a Massacre, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unfair policing of certain kinds of bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy. He grieves for the children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680056Author Shayla LawzFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728184Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Written in the spaces between otherness and brotherhood, Otherhood combines traditional lyricism with experimentalism, passionate engagement with cold-eyed investigation, and personal details with a depersonalized distance to create a new poetic...

Marlanda Dekine's debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation's founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central...