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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the countrys past and future eras and errors, its dreams... |
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Camille T. Dungy - University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
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Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.
Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural... |
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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
Audre Lorde - Ixia Press
Format: Book
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"Lordes words - on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice - burn with relevance 25 years after her death." - O, The Oprah MagazineWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build... |
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily... |
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Don't Call Us Dead
Danez Smith - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith -- "Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending... |
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin - Vintage International
Format: Book
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial... |
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Incendiary Art
Patricia Smith - TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Format: Book
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One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today's literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her compelling new collection, Incendiary Art. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers... |
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Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers,... |
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Lighthead
Terrance Hayes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryIn his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant.... |
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Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey - Houghton Mifflin Company; 1st edition
Format: Book
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Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting... |
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde - Penguin Classics
Format: Book
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne A Penguin Classic HardcoverIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches,... |
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The Tradition
Jericho Brown - Copper Canyon Press
Format: Paperback
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Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety?... |
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