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The Smell of Good Mud by Lauren Zuniga 9781935904977
RRP: $23.10$20.85Apologies 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... -
To Hell and Back by Bruce Cadogan 9781838042615
RRP: $27.28$17.75Apologies 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)... -
The Panther & the Lash by Langston Hughes 9780679736592
RRP: $37.80$25.73Apologies 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 *... -
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove 9780393867770
RRP: $44.08$33.62In 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... -
Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis 9780822963813
RRP: $31.50$23.60In 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... -
You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey 9781945588563
RRP: $35.60$24.13Apologies 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 -
For All The Things I Never Got To Say by Fanta Ballo 9780578891439
RRP: $23.08$16.59Apologies 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 -
I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou 9780553354584
RRP: $25.20$15.56In 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... -
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun by Percival Everett
RRP: $27.28$18.12Percival 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... -
Sanctificum by Chris Abani 9781556593161
RRP: $37.80$19.57Apologies 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)... -
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney 9780810152168
RRP: $35.60$21.42The 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... -
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs 9781571315168
RRP: $33.58$23.18Apologies 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 -
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young 9780345807410
RRP: $47.25$34.99Apologies 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 *... -
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman 9780811200769
RRP: $20.98$16.46Kaufman 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... -
No Sweet Without Brine: Poems by Cynthia Manick
RRP: $27.28$17.81Voted 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... -
Reconnaissance: Poems by Carl Phillips 9780374536558
RRP: $23.08$17.41Apologies 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)... -
Things to Do in Hell by Chris Martin
RRP: $27.28$18.12Join 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... -
Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez 9780807068274
RRP: $29.38$20.62Apologies 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 -
SLINGSHOT by Cyree Jarelle Johnson 9781643620091
RRP: $27.28$18.122020 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... -
Foolish/unfoolish: Reflections on Love by Ashanti 9781401300302
$40.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300302Author AshantiFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 295g -
Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819511645
RRP: $25.10$19.61Best 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... -
Nod House Nathaniel Mackey (University of California at Santa Cruz) 9780811219464
RRP: $27.28$24.07With 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... -
or, on being the other woman by Simone White 9781478018469
RRP: $29.38$25.68In 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... -
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete by Alice Walker 9780156028615
RRP: $54.58$38.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028615Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 463Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 137mm *... -
Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick
RRP: $31.48$20.75A 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... -
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
RRP: $29.30$21.27From 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... -
Village by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
RRP: $27.28$18.12Part 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,... -
Counting Descent by Clint Smith 9781938912115
RRP: $42.00$30.51Apologies 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)... -
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith 9781555977856
RRP: $33.60$20.29Apologies 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... -
Daylight: Poems by Roya Marsh
RRP: $31.50$20.35Growing 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... -
Because You Were Mine Brionne Janae 9781642599121
RRP: $31.48$20.75In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival."I've decided I can't trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for... -
Black Box: Poems by Frank X Walker 9780967542416
RRP: $31.48$28.16Apologies 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 -
Wild is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips
RRP: $23.08$18.67"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... -
49th Parallel Psalm Wayde Compton 9781551520650
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 -
Joker, Joker, Deuce by Paul Beatty 9780140587234
RRP: $50.40$34.80Apologies 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 *... -
Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton by Calvin C. Hernton 9780819500366
RRP: $38.85$35.78The 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... -
Mass for Shut-Ins Mary-Alice Daniel 9780300267990
RRP: $31.48$31.19The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds "Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and... -
The Shared World: Poems by Vievee Francis
RRP: $46.10$33.60The 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... -
Wrong by Reginald Shepherd
RRP: $27.30$23.50The 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... -
Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya Wadud 9781937658878
RRP: $25.18$16.80Crosslight 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...