African American & Black

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711886Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 290g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970020970Author SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Phaelos Books & MediawerksPublisher Phaelos Books & MediawerksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596780Author Lucille CliftonFormat 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 9780142001394Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113g

Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793439Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

"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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780143137139Author Rio CortezFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed "Native Son and Black Boy", discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...

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.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143116967Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

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.

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

"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." -Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767918466Author June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

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

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536220Author Rowan Ricardo PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

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...

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.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780143133186Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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,...

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...

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...

Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the...

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...

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...

Daughter is a memoir-style collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our...

Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics-racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy-showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767433Author Kevin PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946448545Author Kiki PetrosinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Sarabande Books, IncorporatedPublisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811224451Author Nathaniel MackeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988444Author Eric ReeseFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

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