African American & Black

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793804Author Khadijah QueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has...

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of self.Through poetry and short essays, unfold shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101911204Author Robin Coste LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9781880238882Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809000937Author Ted JoansFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

In an intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528720496Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books-Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed-along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often...

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

In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power,...

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)...

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

From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.This is a seven-year tapestry of love, adventure, enlightenment,...

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...

These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels...

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.This most intense of the riots of the USA's 'Red...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

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.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2011 and Connecticut Book Awards (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975685Author Elizabeth AlexanderFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533847Author Rowan Richardo PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312329624Author Jill ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068533Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm

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

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,...

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...

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...

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 9798218167035Author Amsara Sekhita Mai HollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint A.S.M.H.Publisher A.S.M.H.Weight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912900Author Lino AnunciacionFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935248385Author Charles CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574232462Author Wanda ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Sparrow PressPublisher Black Sparrow PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735302805Author Karmen ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Karlton T. ClayPublisher Karlton T. ClayWeight(grams) 152g