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Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez's poetry,this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work,including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969) , through to 2019, the poet has collected... |
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We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
William Evans - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived... |
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Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
Kwame Alexander - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 of James Baldwins... |
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
Nikky Finney - Triquarterly
Format: Hardcover
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured... |
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Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in PoetryIndecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social... |
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Wade in the Water: Poems
TRACY K SMITH - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love's bladeSizing up the heart's familiar meat?We watch and grieve. We sleep,... |
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE... |
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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? Who is this... |
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Homie: Poems
Danez Smith - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY. Danez Smith is our president. Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths close friends, this book... |
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
Natasha Trethewey - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocqs Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey.Layering joy and urgent defiance -- against physical and cultural... |
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Magical Negro
Morgan Parker - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at O, the Oprah Magazine and Publishers Weekly.Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog... |
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
Terrance Hayes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryOne of the New York Times Critics Top Books of 2018A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of Americas most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author... |
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White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
Kiki Petrosino - Sarabande Books
Format: Paperback
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In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South. From a stunning double crown... |
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Hybrida: Poems
Tina Chang - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years." - Craig Morgan Teicher, NPRNamed a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens... |
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
Hanif Abdurraqib - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew.... |
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1919
Eve L. Ewing - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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"The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation." -- Studio 360"A truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it." -- Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots... |
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Living Weapon: Poems
Rowan Ricardo Phillips - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon.. . . . and wed do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing we were the weapon ourselves,Stronger than steel, story, and hydrogen. -- from "Even Homer Nods".... |
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Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) .Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems -- canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through... |
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious... |
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