Poetry
You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems about Boys (Revised)
Supplier: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males.here's Tow-Kaye, getting married at age 16 to love of his life,...
$10.99
Concrete Kids
Supplier: Penguin Workshop Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us."I will close my eyes and disappear into the...
$8.99
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Supplier: Clarion Books A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a...
$8.99
Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope (HB)
From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition...
$14.99
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
MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL CHANGE: CONSTRAINTS TO DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA
This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the...
$29.95
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...
$12.95
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
DIASPORA BLUES
Diaspora Blues
Product details
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