Selected Poems
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie…
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1. Selected Poems
By: Langston Hughes
4.31
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poem… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- race
- literature
- african american
"Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Hell no! It's time to talk back now! History says it's time"-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
2. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a blac… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- race
- womens
- african american
"I see much better now and my eyes hurt."-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home."-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea"-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and …"-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
3. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- fiction
4. Electric Arches
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more
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- poetry
- race
- african american
- fiction
5. The First and Second Discourses
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Roger D. Masters , Judith R. Masters
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text inclu… read more
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- classics
6. Plays Unpleasant
By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
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- classics
- fiction
7. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- race
8. 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
- literature
- fiction
- african american
9. Selected Poems
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- race
- literature
- fiction
- womens
- african american
10. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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11. The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate (The Princess in Black #5)
By: Shannon Hale , LeUyen Pham , Dean Hale
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Noseholes and elephants! A pet-eating monster interrupts a perfect playdate with Princess Sneezewor… read more
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12. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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13. Tender Buttons
By: Gertrude Stein
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more
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14. When Angels Speak of Love
By: bell hooks
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This collection of 50 poems illuminates our experiences of love - tracing the links between seducti… read more
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15. The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation (The Princess in Black #4)
By: Shannon Hale , LeUyen Pham , Dean Hale
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Even monster-battling princesses get tired sometimes! But a peaceful time away is hard to find as t… 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
"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. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- poetry
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
18. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- race
- african american
- fiction
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
19. 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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- poetry
- race
"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)
20. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- womens
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
21. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- poetry
- race
- african american
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
