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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAnd Still I Rise
Maya Angelou, Linda Sunshine, Diego Rivera · 112 pages
Maya Angelou's third poetry collection, a unique celebration of life, consists of rhythms of strength, love, and remembrance, songs of the street, and lyrics of the heart.
Poems
Maya Angelou · 209 pages
Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher. Includes a selection of her poetry.
Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey · 57 pages
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey's elegiac *Native Guard* is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze a
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Nikki Giovanni · 512 pages
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine · 160 pages
You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary movement, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating sounds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because ju
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur · 149 pages
A collection of brilliant and intense poems, in the handwritten and typed version, by the rapper Tupac Shakur.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson · 368 pages
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
Nikki Grimes · 124 pages
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance -- paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Aime Cesaire · 81 pages
"Aime Cesaire is most well known as the co-creator (with Leopold Senghor) of the concept of negritude. His long poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, written at the end of World War II, is a masterpiece of immense cultural significance and beauty and became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Cesaire's work to English by
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherrie L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua · 261 pages
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. from Google Books
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange · 64 pages
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories
Avan Jogia · 144 pages
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Clint Smith · 240 pages
The New Testament
Jericho Brown · 80 pages
To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius' Claudia RankineJericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important new voices in US poetry.
Slow Lightning
Eduardo C. Corral · 76 pages
"Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braiding English and Spanish, Corral's poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. He employs a range
Prelude to Bruise
Saeed Jones · 103 pages
From a review by Rigoberto González: Inside each hunger, each desire, speaks the voice of a boy that admits 'I've always wanted to be dangerous.' This is not a threat but a promise to break away from the affliction of silence, to make audible the stories that trouble the dimensions of masculinity and discomfort the polite conversations about race. With impressive grace, Saeed Jones situates th
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Danez Smith · 128 pages
Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America. "The poems of [INSERT] BOY have need of the body—desire it and lament its mortality—but over and again they assert Smith's seeming
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong · 92 pages
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd step
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages