African American & Black

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...

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...

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...

I am society's eraser shards-bits used to fix other people's sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet'la...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526618Author Caspar WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595899Author Leila ChattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard's long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry American poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780374603762Author Carl PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936919642Author Diannely AntiguaFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint YesYes BooksPublisher YesYes BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 150mm *...

I am the Rage is not just a poetry book. It is a call-to-action.This evocative collection of thirty poems puts readers in the position of feeling, reflecting, and empathizing with what it means to be Black in America today. Dr. Martina McGowan, a doctor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532161Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a...

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification,...

In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the...

Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and...

The award-winning poet's darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt systemLyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster's debut aims its sights at the words and images that shape us and the...

"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post "Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812997873Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

Winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the most intimate vows we swear.This is what...

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding the world's experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988000Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

NPR Best Books of 2019 Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019 Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019 O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019 The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019 LitHub Most Anticipated Reads of Summer 2019 The...

Chosen Poems is also, Lorde says, "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited." Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People...

Testimony for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014 Mr. President, After they shot me they tackled my sister. The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalk made my stomach ache. It was a bad pain. Like when you love someone and they lie to you. Or that time...

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 bare. In...

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 &...

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the...

The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza...

In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community. With the wit and musicality fitting of a 90s baby...

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. In...

Recipient of the the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry prize for the best first book by an African American poet, The Body's Question confronts issues of loss, historical intersections between race and family and the threshold between childhood and adulthood.Book...

Monument, Trethewey's first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595394Author Alison C. RollinsFormat 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 9780679736592Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 138gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594571Author Jericho BrownFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132456Author Nate MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Winner of the 2018 US National Book Award for PoetryIntricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged...

Through a series of transmissions and proposals, the poems in No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body explore the intelligence of the body, especially bodies under duress. Wadud evokes the hum and chorus that fills us when we write to...