Non-Fiction
I Am a Promise
"Pryce, who earned her fame as an illustrious athlete before putting pen to paper, remains an influential voice for young men and women the world over...She lives the promise entrusted to her."--Jamaica Gleaner “A retelling of Jamaican Olympic gold medalist...
$15.95
Legacy
My name is James Hines. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and I'm Gay. This book of fiction is about a young gay brother by the name of Josh who grew up in the projects. His father was...
$15.00
FROM CLEATS TO LOAFERS
The chapters in this book contain some of the proudest moments for an athlete, as well as the dark moments. I share with you my story of striving to achieve a dream of mine, making it to the NFL and...
$16.95
Call Me By My Name (HB)
From former football star and bestselling author John Ed Bradley comes a searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity. “Heartbreaking,” says Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak.Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, Tater...
$9.99
Call Me By My Name (PB)
From former football star and bestselling author John Ed Bradley comes a searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity. “Heartbreaking,” says Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak.Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, Tater...
$12.99
BEATING A RESTLESS DRUM HB
June Bobb explores the different ways the Anglophone Caribbean's most important poets engage in rewriting history and re-conceiving a visionary world in which it becomes possible to reconnect the fragments of a past destroyed or denied by the Caribbean's confrontation...
$410.58
DIASPORA BLUES
Diaspora Blues
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Publisher : Red Sea Press,U.S. (July 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 92 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569022399
ISBN-13 : 978-1569022399
Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
$16.33
OBAMA PHENOMENON: ESSAYS AND POETRY BY BLACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ARTISTS
Edited by internationally recognized scholar on black literatures and cultures, Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its Diaspora to address various themes of the Obama phenomenon, all from an...
$29.95
HOMELAND: AND OTHER POEMS
Homeland and Other Poems
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications; 0 edition (April 10, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 72 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592215955
ISBN-13 : 978-1592215959
Item Weight : 15.8 ounces
$12.87
LABYRINTH AND PATH OF THUNDER (PB)
Labyrinths contains 4 long-form poems: Heavensgate, Limits, Silences, and, Distances. Paths of Thunder, which is subtitled Poems Prophesying War, contains the shorter poems: Thunder Can Break, Elegy of the Wind, Come Thunder, Hurrah for Thunder, Elegy for Slit-Drum, and, Elegy...
$14.95
IT GROWS IN WINTER: AND OTHER POEMS
Okafor's lyricism is highly reminiscent of such nature poets as William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and W.B.Yeats. W.B. Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree" shows his nostalgia for his Irish countryside whose beauty and tranquility he commemorated and celebrated in that...
$14.95
DREAM KINGDOM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Dream Kingdom is a fascinating selection of the Gambian poet Tijan M. Sallah s poetry, which in his own words reflects the mystical and mythical basis for all poetry. This book includes selections from most of the poet s four...
$20.86
HIGHTOWER: IBHAYU POETRY
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the...
$24.95
HORSEMEN AND OTHER POEMS
This lyrical, expansive poetry takes the reader back and forth and back again: from the war in Biafra, to a life in exile; from the intimate, to the worldly; and always back to Here, among the coconut smell, the thatched...
$14.95
HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS: POEMS
“By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding.” --Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Mukoma wa Ngugi is a poet of extraordinary expressive gifts....
$14.95
CIRCLES OF LOVE: POEMS
”This fine collection of poetry on love, nature and Sufism bursts forth with pure humanity and elegance of language. Dominated by the presence of beautiful, dignified womanhood that is tough but loving, giving and grateful, the poems peel off layers...
$14.95
ELOBI: POEMS
elobi/ the chant is born of a swallowed screamof speech dilutedin beads of tearsdried by masculine modestytrue speechretreated to the bordersof withdrawal elobi is the specifically cameroonian way of referring to the wet, swampy areas that surround riverbanks. elobi is...
$12.95
LIVING IN BABYLON: POEMS AND PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?"
Esther Iverem’s new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal. As an active member of DC Poets Against the War, she is a member of...
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BEAUTIFUL. AND UGLY TOO
Beautiful. And Ugly Too, the critically-acclaimed, second poetry collection from award-winning author M.K. Asante, Jr., reveals through its delicate rhythm, the plurality of being alive. The poems, sketched from influences and drawn from experiences around the world, are colorful comments...
$12.95