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English
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"Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It's the music you make with them that matters. He's not a wordsmith, he's a shaman conjuring long repetitive lines, cadences of looking across the sea towards Africa and haunted by the legacy of slavery and racism, or of remembering fellow conjurers, poets and musical artists, celebrating, always celebrating, but never only that. In the fifty-page, incantatory poem, "Ghost Voices,"...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life.
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxxv, 387 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book 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 world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes...
Publisher
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 22 cm + 1 sound disc (70 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove
Author
Publisher
Bronzeville Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
65 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keli Stewart's profound, visceral and heady debut poetry collection is simultaneously autobiographical memoir and social commentary in conversation. The narrator of Small Altars is at different times a girl learning from her elders and ancestors; a young woman coming of age; a single mother caring for her child; or a wise woman who conjures the spirits of her past. In the traditions of Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville, Lucille Clifton's...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
94 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xix, 426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
15) Collected poems
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning four decades of her literary career"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the best poems from the author's award-winning books, along with new poems that confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxx, 255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects more than sixty original and selected poems that frequently deal with such difficult subjects as rape, abortion, suicide, and domestic violence, with Spanish translations on facing pages.
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