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Imperial Liquor
Poems
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood...
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In the Blood
Poems
A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.I am no mystic. I knownothing...
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Intifadas
Winner of 2024 Sarabande 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Edward Salem's Intifadas is a subversive collection about Palestinian resistance, liberation and art Written across Palestine...
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Regular price $18.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.99Kanoni's Kwanzaa
(Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
Kanoni's Kwanzaa
(Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
This festive picture book celebrates the culture, community, and family at the heart of Kwanzaa’s seven principles by a two-time Coretta Scott King Award recipient.When Kanoni...
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Regular price $19.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.99Lift Every Voice
(Pre-order, July 14 2026)
Lift Every Voice
(Pre-order, July 14 2026)
From award-winning poet and novelist Phillip B. Williams, an astonishing new collection that revels in the possibility of creating one's own lightCaptivating for both its...
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Poems
Load in Nine Times
Poems
For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of...
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Regular price $16.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.95Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...
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Mermaid Theory
Poems
From an award-winning, innovative poet, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age In her second full-length collection, Maya Salameh offers...
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Regular price $18.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.99Minor Notes
Volume 2 (Pre-order, March 30 2027)
Minor Notes
Volume 2 (Pre-order, March 30 2027)
The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past,...
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My Brown Boy
An affirming picture book that celebrates the brilliance and power of brown and Black boys to achieve their dreams, from poet and activist Leslé Honoré...
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Native Guard
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South...
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A Poem
New and Collected Hell
A Poem
Shane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary...
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Night Owl Poems
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the...
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Night Watch
Poems
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the award-winning poet...
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Now & Then
Poems
Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed ‘bluesologist’ triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm...
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Pig
Poems
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a...
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Rifqa
Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was...
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S O S
Poems 1961-2013
One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse,...
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SOULMATE AS A VERB
Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE...
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Spectral Evidence
Poems
A powerful mediation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating-- Spectral Evidence,...
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Regular price $24.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.99Sold outTaking the Arrow Out of the Heart
WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work *Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel...
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Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $22.95The Arrivants
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
The Arrivants
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants--containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)--a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet...
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Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $22.00The Book of Light
Anniversary Edition
The Book of Light
Anniversary Edition
With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights...
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Regular price $17.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $17.95The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
A Memoir
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
A Memoir
Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms. In The Gloomy...
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