Non-Fiction
The Going to Bed Book
Publisher: Little Simon
Getting ready for sleep is tons of fun in this Sandra Boynton classic.The sun has set not long ago.Now everybody goes belowto take a bath in one big tubwith soap all over—SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB!
$5.99
A Fortune for Your Disaster
Publisher: Tin House Books “When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” ―Booklist, Starred...
$15.95
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
Publisher: Library of America A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los...
$45.00
Be Holding: A Poem
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardBe Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers....
$17.00
Cardinal
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Tyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”― the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye’s family and upbringing, which have been...
$16.00
Duende: Poems, 1966-Now
Publisher: Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It's the music you make with them...
$19.95
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon honkytonk,Wherever blues dare to travel.Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings...
$35.00
Finna: Poems
Publisher: One World Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy“Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country...
$17.00
Funeral Diva
Publisher: City Lights Books Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry! A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,...
$16.95
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
Publisher: Four Way Books John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a...
$16.95
Owed
Publisher: Penguin Books From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School,...
$20.00
Somebody Else Sold the World
Publisher: Penguin Books A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer PrizeThe poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World,...
$20.00
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poetI think now more than halfOf life is death but I can’t dieEnough for all the life I seeIn Sometimes I Never Suffered, his...
$25.00
The Absurd Man: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment. Inspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the...
$26.95
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Publisher: Viking The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestsellerAmanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.“Stunning.” —CNN“Dynamic.” —NPR“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue On January 20, 2021, Amanda...
$15.99
The Malevolent Volume
Publisher: Coffee House Press Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath...
$16.95
The Perseverance
Publisher: Tin House Books Featured on NPR's Morning Edition A Poetry Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Poetry School Winner of the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize ...
$16.95
The Hill We Climb and Other Poems
A collection of poetry by presidential inaugural poet Amanda GormanIncluding "The Hill We Climb," the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing...
$19.99
The Renunciations: Poems
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of BestiaryThe Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love...
$16.00
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science. For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who...
$30.00