Poetry
Her
Publisher: Jeanius Publishing LLC For those on a journey to find self-love and acceptance, the words on these pages are dedicated to helping you see the beauty staring back in the mirror, finding the strength to conquer your heartbreak, gaining...
$19.99
Here Is the Sweet Hand: Poems
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the...
$25.00
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and...
$28.00
I Am the Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
Publisher: Sourcebooks I am the Rage is not just a poetry book. It is a call-to-action. This evocative collection of thirty poems puts readers in the position of feeling, reflecting, and empathizing with what it means to be Black in America...
$14.99
Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
Publisher: Nightboat Books Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics―racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy―showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words matter, savoring the small...
$19.95
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
Magical Negro
Publisher: Tin House Books A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner! From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood."Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to...
$15.95
Negotiations
Publisher: Tin House Books "Full of wonder." ―Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced...
$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
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove...
$26.95
Seeing the Body: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in PoetryAn elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging...
$26.95
She Fits Inside These Words, 4
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you’ve been fighting...
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She's Strong, But She's Tired, 3
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.
$16.99
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 Age of Phillis
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis WheatleyNAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Poetry2020 National Book Award for Poetry, Longlist2020 LA Times Book Award FinalistIn 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis...
$26.95
The Complete Poetry
Publisher: Random House The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her...
$30.00
The Essential June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press "This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against...
$18.00
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...
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