African American & Black

Gripping and poignant, this new collection of poetry from bestselling author Renaada Williams offers a raw view of the world from her unique perspective.Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deepest thoughts and most intimate experiences as a queer...

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...

A 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...

In Don't Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson explores myriad intersectional identities in relation to The State, disease, love, sex, failure, and triumph. Speaking to those who feel disillusioned by both radical and banal spaces and...

Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus as well as love lyrics, political rants, "Prison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oklahoma Book Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781935904977Author Lauren ZunigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838042615Author Bruce CadoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Neilson Book ServicesPublisher Neilson Book ServicesWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation-the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945588563Author Yona HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578891439Author Fanta BalloFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Ratty ReachPublisher Ratty ReachWeight(grams) 140g

In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This...

Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets.Book...

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 9781556593161Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300302Author AshantiFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 295g

2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2020 FINALIST for the FIRECRACKER AWARDS SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation. SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing...

Apologies 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 *...

Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick's poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536558Author Carl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

"What has restlessness been for?" In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named - love that is at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the...

Apologies 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

With 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...

Join 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068274Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies 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

Crosslight 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

A 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...

From 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...

Part 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912115Author Clint SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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...

Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered "tomboy passing." With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandannas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed. She knew she was...

Apologies 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

Let 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...

Apologies 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 *...

The definitive guide to a major African American poet/>/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra...

The 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...

The poems of Reginald Shepherd's third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues and fragmented stories), and the dazzling extravagances...