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  • Black Under

    The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one turn then into cutting ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eye Scream

    by Henry Rollins ...
    Series series Henry Rollins
    "Work on Eye Scream started in 1986. I was crossing America constantly andexperiencing the morality shifts, attitudes, and rituals in different partsof the country - the difference in the way people were in the Bible Belt asopposed to New York City, the way blacks and whites interfaced, theintolerance of homosexuality, the morality plays. I started to become awareof how brutal the country is and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • One Big Self

    by C.D. Wright ...
    “Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence.”—The New YorkerInspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a “factotum” for a portrait photographer—One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • JesusDevil

    The Parables

    Series Book 8 - Emergent Strategy
    A brilliantly crafted voyage of queer, black possibility.Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls “afiction,” Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be

    Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales (LOA #19)

    Series Book 1 - Library of America Edgar Allan Poe Edition
    The Library of America presents “the first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales”—featuring well-known works like ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, plus a selection of rarely published writings (New York Review of Books).Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry is famous both for the musicality of “To Helen” and “The City in the Sea” and for the hypnotic, incantatory rhythms of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Collection Plate

    Poems

    by Kendra Allen ...
    A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voiceLooping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Indigo

    by Ellen Bass ...
    “A bold and passionate new collection… Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —BooklistIndigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lyrics & Prose

    by Ric Ocasek ...
    Emerging from the New Wave music scene of the late ‘70s, The Cars catapulted to success with the very first single—“Just What I Needed”—off of their debut album. Led by Ric Ocasek, the lead vocalist (along with Benjamin Orr), rhythm guitarist, and songwriter, The Cars became one of the most successful bands of the ‘80s—and their songs are just as beloved by fans today.Ocasek himself has had an ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Foreign Bodies: Poems

    by Kimiko Hahn ...
    A striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)."Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Blue Fasa

    A stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (The New York Times), and winner of the National Book Award in poetry.Nathaniel Mackey’s sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the “mythological conception” and “descriptive daring” of his two intertwined serial poems. A long song that's one and more than one, this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Communicate: Poems

    **Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryA stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar).**Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories

    Poems

    Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelbert Miller delights and surprises us with his deft imaginings and portraits. Ethelbert’s poems play out in baseball rhythm and express the joy of living, despite the bitter challenges in today’s world. These poems define our time and allow us to see ourselves as human through the lens of baseball, family and music.When Your Wife Has Tommy John ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • S O S

    Poems 1961–2013

    by Amiri Baraka ...
    “S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post).Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Activist

    Portraits of Courage

    by KK Ottesen ...
    A speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother.Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Senator Bernie Sanders and Grover Norquist to Al Sharpton recount the experiences that sparked their journeys and share the beliefs that keep them going. These are citizens who met challenge ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • In the Lateness of the World

    Poems

    **FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY“An undisputed literary event.” —NPR“History—with its construction and its destruction—is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave—a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker**Over four decades, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • We Are Mermaids

    Poems

    Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” (Boston Review)Stephanie Burt’s poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Yellow Moving Van

    by Ron Koertge ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots in the Mid-West and a few pages later stops off in Transylvania. These poems like to sometimes embrace and sometimes confound expectations, and they all stand together as enemies of the murky and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • There Are Trans People Here

    by H. Melt ...
    There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt’s writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trace Evidence: Poems

    **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA GUARDIAN AND ELECTRIC LIT BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2023“A truly magical achievement.” —Ocean Vuong**In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • We All Make it Out in the End

    by Lacey Roop ...
    We All Make It Out In The End is an exploration on identity, survival, queerness, and love. Divided into 5 sections, Lacey Roop invites thereader on a journey to examine the human condition. These poems navigate through grief, wonder, uncertainty, hope and grace. We All Make It Out In The End is both a testament and celebration to the moments-big and small-and how we exist in them. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anywho, I Love You

    From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.This is a seven-year tapestry of love, adventure, enlightenment, and progression. A collection of moments sewn together with poetry and prose, memories and musings.Anywho, I Love You is a window into what we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Weary Blues

    This celebratory edition of the classic poetry collection reminds us of Hughes's stunning achievement, speaking directly, intimately, and powerfully of Black experiences at a time when Black voices were newly being heard in American literature. • With an introduction by poet Kevin Young.Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem) Huges writes, “I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Leaves of Grass, 1860

    The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    In May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition of Leaves of Grass. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as “essentially the greatest poem,” this new edition was Whitman’s last best hope for national salvation. Now available in a facsimile edition, Leaves of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD