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In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae 9780819577115
RRP: $31.73$26.21Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's... -
The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas by Lorenzo Thomas 9780819578990
RRP: $34.22$28.13Lorenzo Thomas (1944 2005) was the youngest member of the Society of Umbra, predecessor of the Black Arts Movement. The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas is the first volume to encompass his entire writing life. His poetry synthesizes New York School and... -
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
RRP: $20.57$13.72A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021 A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A... -
Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya Wadud 9781937658878
RRP: $20.57$13.72Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight. These poems are concerned with the demands we make on our body, the... -
Sanctificum by Chris Abani 9781556593161
RRP: $30.88$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593161Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Horsepower: Poems by Joy Priest 9780822966197
RRP: $25.73$21.54Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back... -
The End of the Alphabet by Claudia Rankine
RRP: $20.57$16.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802124470Author Claudia RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips
RRP: $25.73$15.42Carl Phillips's new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own... -
Nod House by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811219464
RRP: $22.28$19.66With Nathaniel Mackey's fifth collection of poems, Nod House, we witness a confluence of music and meaning unprecedented in American poetry. Mackey's art continues to push the envelope of what is possible to map and remap through words in sounds and... -
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young 9780345807410
RRP: $38.59$29.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345807410Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle 9781524878405
RRP: $17.14$11.00Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring... -
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men by Harold Green III
RRP: $22.28$20.12As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires-groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper,... -
Things to Do in Hell by Chris Martin
RRP: $22.28$14.80Join Chris Martin for a poetic walking tour of hell-or is it heaven? In this wickedly clever collection, Martin asks how we go about living in the tension between protesting lunatic politicians and picking up the kids from school, mourning a dying Earth... -
Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson 9780819580108
RRP: $44.51$36.09Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window.Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature... -
Joker, Joker, Deuce by Paul Beatty 9780140587234
RRP: $41.17$29.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140587234Author Paul BeattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Black Box: Poems by Frank X Walker 9780967542416
RRP: $27.43$21.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967542416Author Frank X WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Old Cove PressPublisher Old Cove Press -
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
RRP: $27.43$20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967542409Author Frank X WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Old Cove PressPublisher Old Cove Press -
or, on being the other woman by Simone White 9781478018469
RRP: $25.71$20.96In or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal narrative, and critical theory, attesting to the... -
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
RRP: $23.93$19.01From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.About the AuthorDOUGLAS KEARNEY'S work as a poet, performer and librettist has been featured in many venues... -
Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick
RRP: $25.71$16.95A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker's experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and... -
Village by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
RRP: $22.28$14.80Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement. In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,... -
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith 9781555977856
RRP: $27.44$17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781555977856Author Danez SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf... -
Brown: Poems by Kevin Young 9781524711146
RRP: $25.71$22.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711146Author Kevin YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu 9780691239033
RRP: $29.14$21.63The 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... -
HULL by Xandria Phillips 9781643620084
RRP: $22.28$14.80WINNER of the JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED for the HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD In this debut collection by African American poet Xandria Phillips, HULL explores emotional impacts of... -
49th Parallel Psalm by Wayde Compton 9781551520650
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520650Author Wayde ComptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 255g -
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 1; Poems 1921-1940 by Langston Hughes
RRP: $90.91$85.42The first three volumes of Missouri's landmark Collected Works of Langston Hughes comprise all of his published poetry. Although he worked in a variety of forms, Hughes was above all a poet. From 1921, when his first poem. ""The Negro Speaks of Rivers,""... -
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs 9781571315168
RRP: $27.43$18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571315168Author Michael Kleber-DiggsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions -
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker
RRP: $20.57$13.72In this luminous collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama, she reminds readers of the... -
The Shared World: Poems by Vievee Francis
RRP: $37.65$25.33The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the... -
neckbone: visual verses by Avery R. Young 9780810140523
RRP: $42.80$32.49The ""blk alter"" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between... -
I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price
RRP: $22.28$18.90"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,... -
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Ntozake Shange 9781501169939
RRP: $41.17$25.68NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes "a kaleidoscopic... -
Red, White & Verse: Our Myths, Legends & Stories by Greg McNeilly 9781962202220
RRP: $42.87$28.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962202220Author Greg McNeillyFormat HardbackPage Count 279Imprint Ballast BooksPublisher Ballast BooksWeight(grams) 454g -
The Next Step in Evolution by Caleb C-Mo Morris 9798223249726
RRP: $25.71$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223249726Author Caleb C-Mo MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint C-MoPublisher C-MoWeight(grams) 177g -
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K Smith 9781555978365
RRP: $27.44$16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978365Author Tracy K SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Grown Woman by Crystal Symone 9798989937905
RRP: $30.86$22.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989937905Author Crystal SymoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Limitless PenPublisher Limitless PenWeight(grams) 113g -
How To Become The Conqueror: An African American Revelation by Amsara Sekhita Mai Holly 9798218167035
$19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218167035Author Amsara Sekhita Mai HollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint A.S.M.H.Publisher A.S.M.H.Weight(grams) 50g -
An Ode by Nicole Hollimon 9781732752535
RRP: $22.28$18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732752535Author Nicole HollimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Swiner Publishing Co.Publisher Swiner Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 113g -
Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems by James Weldon Johnson 9780141183879
RRP: $25.94$20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141183879Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...