Harlem Shadows: Poems
By: Claude McKay
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical…
Want to Read $ 1.99"All art is the product of the entirety of an artist’s life, whether that art is biographical or confessional or neither."-Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: Poems
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1. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- race
- fiction
- african american
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
2. My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
3. Meditations in an Emergency
By: Frank O'Hara
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
4. American Indian Stories
By: Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical… read more
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- poetry
- classics
5. كزهر اللوز أو أبعد
By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش
3.93
Format: None pages,
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
6. The Weary Blues
By: Langston Hughes
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- race
- fiction
- african american
7. Lucy
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. There Is Confusion
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset , Thadious M. Davis
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Set in Philadelphia some 60 years ago, There Is Confusion traces the lives of Joanna Mitchell and P… read more
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- classics
- african american
- fiction
- race
9. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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10. Not Without Laughter
By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more
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11. The Confessions of Nat Turner
By: William Styron
3.95
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader … read more
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- classics
- african american
- fiction
- race
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13. Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
By: Liz Howard
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our … read more
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14. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: Arna Bontemps , James Weldon Johnson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more… read more
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15. The Quest of the Silver Fleece
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world… read more
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16. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
17. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
18. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
19. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
- african american
20. Harlem Shadows: Poems
By: Claude McKay
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical… read more
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- african american literature
- poetry
- classics
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- black literature
- fiction
- african american
- queer
"All art is the product of the entirety of an artist’s life, whether that art is biographical or confessional or neither."-Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: Poems
21. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
22. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
23. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
24. A Nail the Evening Hangs On
By: Monica Sok
4.37
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge … read more
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25. Build Yourself a Boat
By: Camonghne Felix
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more
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- race
- lgbt
- african american
- adult
26. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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27. The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave (AmazonClassics Edition)
By: John Thompson
4.01
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, John Thompson spent the first twenty-five years of his … read more
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- african american
28. Southern Horrors & The Red Record (AmazonClassics Edition)
By: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
4.37
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
In the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, crusading African American journalist I… read more
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29. Color
By: Countee Cullen
4.01
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
Color (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Har… read more
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30. Mother/land
By: Ananda Lima
4.19
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Mother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immi… read more
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31. The Threshold: Poems
By: Iman Mersal
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egyp… read more
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