African American & Black

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)...

Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1948). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical socialism toward strong support for the national war effort;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810145665Author Matthew ShenodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection contains lighthouse poems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012251Author Sunni PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400066100Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597097178Author Allison JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 152g

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484384Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956764907Author Loretta BurnsFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 100g

Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document-a guidebook for the American slave owner. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596131Author Nikki WallschlaegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733723534Author Brent Hayes EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Blank Forms EditionsPublisher Blank Forms EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733674188Author Tim SeiblesFormat PaperbackImprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 476g

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 9781640606777Author Nikki GrimesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 318g

In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about...

From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Cesaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander's status as one of the most...

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...

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of...

Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she...

The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles--based African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aime Cesaire and...

"Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder-a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question." -Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872867451Author Tongo Eisen-MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint City Lights BooksPublisher City Lights Books

The debut collection from 22-year-old poet Reyna Mays, I Love My Love tells the story of Reyna's childhood, her parents' toxic relationship, and how, against all odds, she learned to love herself.About the AuthorReyna Mays, known as "Reyna Biddy", is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988017Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944211844Author Natasha MarinFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

This moving collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life...

Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an...

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents...

The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to Vienna to meet "bad-boy" genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer's subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George,...

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in this intimate collection. Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596582Author Amanda GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229484Author Safia ElhilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Season 15 winner of America's Got Talent, Brandon Leake, presents his debut poetry collection. Brandon is the first spoken word poet to compete on AGT and to receive the Golden Buzzer award in the first round, going on to win the entire competition!From...

Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, "Touch", written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics - a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war - with a...

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance2022 California Book Award FinalistPolitically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a...

For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and...

From acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist."All my life, I've written these words with no thought or...