Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
By: Nikki Giovanni
4.20
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- race
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- adult
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- poetry
- race
- adult
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- african american
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
By: Maya Angelou
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verse… read more
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- poetry
- african american
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- audiobook
4. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
By: Alice Walker
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
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5. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
By: Kwame Alexander
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more
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- poetry
- race
- adult
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
6. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
7. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
8. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- feminism
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- adult
- audiobook
9. Dispatch: Poems
By: Cameron Awkward-Rich
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to… read more
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- race
- adult
10. 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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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
11. The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story
By: Andrew Neiderman
3.04
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in t… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- race
- politics
- adult
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
13. This Is the Honey
By: Kwame Alexander
4.47
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
- audiobook
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
15. Trace Evidence: Poems
By: Charif Shanahan
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- audiobook
16. Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
By: Alice Faye Duncan
4.31
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Black activist Opal Lee had a vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone. Growing up in Texas, … read more
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- african american
- nonfiction
- social justice
17. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.62
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
18. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
By: Kwame Alexander
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
19. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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- race
- adult
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- african american
- audiobook
20. Hurricanes: A Memoir
By: Rick Ross
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**AN XXL BEST RAPPER-PENNED BIOGRAPHY*“A gripping journey.”—PeopleThe hig… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
By: Nikki Giovanni
4.20
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- politics
- adult
- nonfiction
- social justice
- 21st century
- african american
- audiobook
22. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
By: Alice Walker
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy wo… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- social justice
- 21st century
- african american
- audiobook
"Hope is a woman who has lost her fear."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"And when they spy on us let them discover us loving"-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be of the world tribe."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
23. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Thanku: Poems of Gratitude
By: Miranda Paul
4.23
Format: 40 pages, ebook
This poetry anthology, edited by Miranda Paul, explores a wide range of ways to be grateful (from g… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Owed
By: Joshua Bennett
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection… read more
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- poetry
- african american
- nonfiction
- social justice
26. The Asking: New and Selected Poems
By: Jane Hirshfield
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in… read more
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- poetry
"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hand…"-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
27. Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
By: Jenn M. Jackson
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is … read more
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- feminism
- race
- nonfiction
28. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
By: Michael Arceneaux
3.77
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Featured as one of Summer 2018’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, E… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"She didn't want me to go to hell, but couldn't see that to not be wholly human might fit my own version of hell on earth."-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"Religion can make you suspend your better sensibilities. Its success in making the faithful fall in line, no matter how foolhearty a position appeared, was rooted in how great a role faith played in …"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"The only insight I could get from the Vatican at this point included shoe recommendations and where to buy one of those bad bitch dresses priests were required to wear while performing mass, if I eve…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"I couldn't make someone love me. I couldn't make myself desirable to someone who didn't want me. I couldn't compel someone to see me in the same way in which I wanted to be seen. All I could do was b…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
29. Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Da Baddest
By: Trina
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unfor… read more
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31. No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
By: Cynthia Manick
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
