Non-Fiction
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
$16.42
AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity...
$20.57
LIGHT THE LIGHTS
Light the Lights presents close-ups from a variety of points where three continents - America, Europe, and Africa - collide and join, yet all thirteen poems of Light the Lights connect with Africa. They are poetic re-enactments of evolutionary evidence...
$14.95
AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS: SONGS FOR PATRIOTS
Rich, lyrical poetry that explores themes such as apocalypse, the Black Arts Movement and activism. Toure's language reflects that of the biblical Pslams, which were not meant for dramatic reading but rather to be sung. Product details Publisher : Africa Research...
$11.47
MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES
Masksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with...
$14.95
IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
Africa World Pr. Hardcover.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0865439397
ISBN-13 : 978-0865439399
Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
$59.95
BLANKETS OF SAND: Poems of War and Exile
Blankets of Sand: Poems of War and Exile
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr (June 1, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 59 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569021074
ISBN-13 : 978-1569021071
Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
$14.75
CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional...
$16.95
BEATING A RESTLESS DRUM: THE POETICS OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE DEREK WALCOTT
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...
$24.95
HIGHLIFE FOR CALIBAN
This "high life" in the poetry of Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy sets us up for the worlds of Caliban and Tarzan, of St. Augustine and Ophelia; Jane and Shylock; and of His Excellency, the politician. So, too, that of Freetown...
$11.03
HAND ON THE NAVEL
In this, the second volume of his Sierra Leone Trilogy, Lemuel Johnson gives voice to a half-forgotten piece of history, for the most part buried in footnotes and archives: The Royal West African Frontier Force which fought for the allies...
$12.67
Lara
"Lara" is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo,...
$15.95
HOME: SOCIAL ESSAYS
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond. These pieces, which...
$16.95
HOME: SOCIAL ESSAYS
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond. These pieces, which...
$16.95
HONEST ENGINE: POEMS
In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but...
$16.95
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."―Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took...
$21.95
The Tradition
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 "By...
$29.99
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Publisher: Vintage The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine). Here, for the first time, are all the poems that...
$21.00
HUGHES: POEMS
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail...
$14.95
Breaking Silence
Work of poetry.
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Publisher : Salonica Press (June 11, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 72 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592321232
ISBN-13 : 978-1592321230
Item Weight : 3.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.18 x 8.5 inches
$20.00