African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450212Author Monique FerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840154Author Reverie KonieckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954245709Author A H Jerriod AvantFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way Books

4-Headed Woman is a journey into and through womanhood-from preadolescence through menopause-and an exploration of women's relations with one another. The poems employ female domestic imagery, manifest in the titles in the book's first section, which...

BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is the debut poetry collection of Shirley Bradley LeFlore, an oral poet and?performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri who has been on the scene for over five decades. While LeFlore tackles social, political and cultural issues...

In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina region where she was born and raised. The prized Carolina Gold rice paradoxically made South...

Leontyne Price remains one of the twentieth century's most revered opera singers and, notably, the first African American to achieve such international acclaim. In movements encompassing poetry and prose, writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Price...

Sterling A. Brown was renowned for his prolific poetry and scholarship on African American folklife. A contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer and the first poet laureate of the District of Columbia, Brown gained acclaim for blues,...

The relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the arresting backdrop to Nandi Comer's collection Tapping Out. Mexican freestyle wrestling becomes the poet's lyrical motif, uncovering what is behind the...

All Blue So Late presents the panorama of a young woman's life as she struggles to come to terms with her place in the world. These poems look to race, gender, and American identity, plumbing the individual's attendant grief, rage, and discomfort with...

Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigration, homeland, and diaspora in the twenty-first century. The poem, inspired by recent events in Egypt, cycles through the journey of two Egyptians moving across borders, languages, cultures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986437304Author Harmony HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 160mm * 10mm

Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a...

Thiahera Nurse's Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil' Kim rapping in the rain, the...

Yusef Komunyakaa discusses the influences of blues and jazz music and poetry on his own writing, comments on some of his own poems, selects interviews that reveal the artistic sensibility of poets and explores some of his own current interests.'Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374602918Author Shane McCraeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 137g

The definitive guide to a major African American poet.This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra...

The title of J.K. Daniels’s first book, Wedding Pulls, comes from a Victorian custom that persists in the American South: charms pulled from a wedding cake by the unmarried attendants are said to predict who will marry next and who never, who will be...

In this superb and eagerly anticipated debut collection by the young African American poet A. Van Jordan, the energy and music of Jordan's language, his honesty of feeling and of truth telling, are matched by his freshness and power. ""His stuff shines,...

Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeFraternal Light: On Painting While Black: Poems for Beauford Delaney is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482136Author Chaun BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 91g

Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends-one Black, the other white-who grew up wards of the state in New York. It's April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend, who...

From the foreword: "In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid...

Anagnorisis, a concept Aristotle describes in his Poetics, refers to a moment in a play-a tragedy specifically-when the hero gains recognition of the true nature of his own character, condition, or relationship with an antagonistic entity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597096195Author Amber Flora ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885635815Author Cynthia Parker-OheneFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584954Author Iain Haley PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James Books

Inception and implosion, Chicago’s grit and grandiosity all come together in the finite poetic power of the original Slam igniter, renowned poet Marc Kelly Smith and his retrospect denotation, Ground Zero.  A cultural, community, and adversarial figure,...

Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When rap's Golden Ages expired, the music's innovativeness and variety diminished. Moody's second book, Olympic...

Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as "contrary" as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites. Via "poetic...

Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a potential crisis...

As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717140456Author Jasmine M PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011681Author Marian D MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883783504Author Richard A LongFormat PaperbackImprint Third World PressPublisher Third World PressWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115830Author Adrian MatejkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299340841Author Jameka WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814350188Author Reviewer Tyrone WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University...

The World Is Round, Nikky Finney's third volume of poetry, collects the wisps of memory we carry with us throughout our earthly lives and weaves them into deft and nuanced poems that emphasize understanding the cycles of life. The settings offer a view...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882688173Author Michael S. WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...