African American & Black

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

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates in Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems, a long-awaited retrospective of the indelible work of a Black feminist, community and LGBTQ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732899391Author Mo'reese MaduFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Decolonized MindsPublisher Decolonized MindsWeight(grams) 195g

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as...

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) 266gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm *...

Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent. With allusions to Dante, Stevie Wonder, Fernando Pessoa, Persephone and Marianne Moore, these poems move from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711948Author Jonah Mixon-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208817Author Paul Laurence DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter...

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692865057Author Terrance Brooks BoykinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Terrance Brooks BoykinPublisher Terrance Brooks BoykinWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767992Author SapphireFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

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...

Drawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Reginald Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic poems about white men, Shepherd also wrote...

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

From Good Stock Strange Blood:And, yet, each morning a fireheart grief in the body coming out of sleep. The listening to the smoke as if fills and weeps inside the chest, choking strength out hands weighted, dangling. We wonder where else it lives before...

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

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 9781625571359Author Cynthia ManickFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625573995Author Bettina JuddFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 281g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954245259Author Glenis RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 152g

"Vibrant with the intensity of blues singers."-Feminist Bookstore News "Patricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her poems are a highly effective antidote to living in a...

One of Coffee House Press's most popular poets An award-winning poet with a commanding presence, Troupe was recently honored with the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. Troupe keeps an extensive schedule and sells a great deal at his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890908Author Quincy TroupeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595615Author Keith S. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Winner of the 2015 Little A Poetry Contest. A journey through girlhood, self-discovery, and the little acts of violence we inflict on one another. In an astounding debut poetry collection, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Lambda Literary fellow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918273437Author Clarence MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 155g

"A true poet of modern classic culture in mid-twentieth century U.S.A."-Allen Ginsberg"At their best the poems have an intensely oral, I would like to call it glossolalic, freedom, as if they captured the essence of what one might like to express in the...

Whatsaid Serif, Nathaniel Mackey's third book of poems, is comprised of installments sixteen through thirty-five of Song of the Andoumboulou, an ongoing serial work whose first fifteen installments appear in Eroding Witness and School of Udhra, his two...

Negritude has been defined by Leopold Sedar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Ba analyzes Senghor's poetry to show...

"Housekeeping"Tepid blow cools the liquid to hunch and wind. A box arrives and loaded spills order across the Jloor. Living room, dining room, room of tinder and kindling. The joints grindto aspirin under the whitest application. At night I place oil...

Being of African American, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis' poems recount her friends and family's--especially the women's--complex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to...