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Head Off and Split: Poems by Nikky Finney Publisher Comments The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off and Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women:... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Poets Continuum #131: Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay Publisher Comments The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T. Dungy Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Touch: Poems by Henri Cole Publisher Comments Henri Coles last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics—a mothers death, a lovers addiction, war—... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum #59) by Lucille Clifton Publisher Comments This long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets writing today includes new poems written during the past four years as well as generous selections from Lucille Clifton's award-winning collections Next: New Poems, Quilting, The Book of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith Publisher Comments "Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smiths new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and like the America she embodies and represents—dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Exodus: A Collection of Poetry by Leonard J. Warrick Publisher Comments Synopsis: The Exodus: A Collection of Poetry is a unique and special look into the soul of author Leonard J. Warrick. His poems were written in the winter of 2004-2005, when the author was 38 years old, and encompass the social, economical and spiritual... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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American Poets Continuum #112: Voices by Lucille Clifton Publisher Comments In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious American poetry awards and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Clifton has also won the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lighthead by Terrance Hayes Publisher Comments From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival by Kwame (edt) Dawes Publisher Comments Contributors include: Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Terrance Hayes, Valzyna Mort, Sonia Sanchez, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Smith, Saul Williams, Staceyann Chin, and 88 others. Imagine a night of a... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics by Alicia Keys Publisher Comments The long-awaited songbook of poems and lyrics, penned by one of the most acclaimed music artists of her time, Alicia Keys, is finally here for her throngs of fans. When she burst onto the scene, Alicia's years of intensive classical piano study and... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why D by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker Synopsis “Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.” — from the preface I was born to grow... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Hardcover
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Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey Publisher Comments Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of Bellocq's Ophelia and Domestic Work, has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in The Best American Poetry 2000. Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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An Onion of Wars by Tony Medina Publisher Comments Tony Medinas latest collection of poetry is satirical and surprising commentary on contemporary issues facing young and old alike. His mastery of language, imagery, conversation, and voice permeates each and every selection within this 100-plus page... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collected Poems of William Carlos Volume 1 by William Ca Williams Publisher Comments So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Animal by Tim Seibles Publisher Comments “Crisply comic,disarmingly frank, and aurally bold …” —Publishers Weekly This collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like a "fast animal," the... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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