Ain't Never Not Been Black (Button Poetry)
By: Javon Johnson
4.49
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
2021 Midwest Book Award Finalist 2021 In The Margins Book Awards - Nonfiction Recommendation List …
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1. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
2. Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
By: Sara Farizan
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
High-school junior Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crus… read more
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3. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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4. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
5. 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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6. Autopsy
By: None
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more
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7. Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
4.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
8. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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- poetry
- social justice
"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
9. Call Us What We Carry
By: Amanda Gorman
4.28
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
"Loss is the cost of loving"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We write Because you might listen."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"And the norms and notions of what “just is"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
10. Helium (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.29
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
"The word “repurpose"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"I held you the way a boat holds water."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
11. Brown Girls
By: Daphne Palasi Andreades
3.90
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens,… read more
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- race
- adult
12. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
By: Jared Singer
3.93
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
13. The Future
By: Neil Hilborn
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find c… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"When I was little I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly. My parents attributed this to my strong imagination. Last year my therapist called it a d…"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
"I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill …"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
14. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
15. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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- race
"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
16. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
17. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
18. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
By: Brenna Twohy
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
19. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
20. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)
By: Martina McGowan
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
21. Ain't Never Not Been Black (Button Poetry)
By: Javon Johnson
4.49
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
2021 Midwest Book Award Finalist 2021 In The Margins Book Awards - Nonfiction Recommendation List … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- adult
