African American & Black

A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486710Author Kim SingletonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

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 9780553255768Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

"To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It's a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wanting out of it."-Reyna Biddy A collection of poetry...

I am the Rage is not just a poetry book. It is a call-to-action.This evocative collection of thirty poems puts readers in the position of feeling, reflecting, and empathizing with what it means to be Black in America today. Dr. Martina McGowan, a doctor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592348Author June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1105g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528250Author Cicely Belle BlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133858Author Joshua BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449493226Author R H SinFormat PaperbackImprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams) 980gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132456Author Nate MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between." So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashion presence...

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding the world's experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this...

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an...

Women's sexuality is used as a weapon against them. In this stunning debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission...

Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus as well as love lyrics, political rants, "Prison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177706Author James CagneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975685Author Elizabeth AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 531g

Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of...

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

In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins-a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice...

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.Book...

Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African...

Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and...

"You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same." That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild...

Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780143133186Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Everyone understands that life is hard, but self-love and dedication will always be the key.becoming. is a beautiful debut collection of poetry centering around themes of feminism, sexuality, race, and mental health. Renaada Williams's 100+ poems are...

In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This...

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...

This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711411Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767992Author SapphireFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965577564Author C Liegh McInnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Claude L. McInnisPublisher Claude L. McInnisWeight(grams) 168g

A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.Book InformationISBN 9780932112491Author Jaki Shelton GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Carolina Wren PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983009672Author Rashaun J AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Royal Blue PublishingPublisher Royal Blue PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520368Author Tony MedinaFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520788Author Melissa Christine GoodrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450946Author Matthew HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 163g