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Home Body
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1919
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Native Guard
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African American Poetry
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How to Carry Water
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
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This Bridge Called My Back
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Funeral Diva
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Cannibal: Poems
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Burning Sugar
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Make Me Rain
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For Colored Girls
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Dance We Do
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Salvage the Bones
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Postcolonial Love Poem
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The Age of Phillis
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
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The Cancer Journals
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The Crown Ain't Worth Much
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If They Come for Us
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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Furious Flower
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Anodyne: Poems
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Domestic Work: Poems
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Citizen
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Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
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Take Three Strands and Make A Beach Out Of Sand: A Zine
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Sister Love
The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
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