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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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Rupi Kaur · 256 pages
From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, root
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
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
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.
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
Salt
Nayyirah Waheed · 251 pages
This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life and pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.
And 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.
The Blacker the Berry
Joyce Carol Thomas
A collection of poems, including "Golden Goodness," "Cranberry Red," and "Biscuit Brown," celebrating individuality and Afro-American identity.
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
Poems
Maya Angelou · 209 pages
Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher. Includes a selection of her poetry.
The City in Which I Love You
Li-Young Lee · 89 pages
Through the observation and translation of often unassuming and silent moments, the poetry of Li-Young Lee gives clear voice to the solemn and extraordinary beauty found within humanity. By employing hauntingly lyrical skill and astute poetic awareness, Lee allows silence, sound, form, and spirit to emerge brilliantly onto the page. His poetry reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the tempora
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Mahmoud Darwish, Jeffrey Sacks · 197 pages
Since Mahmoud Darwish's death in 2008 his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish's writing explores the meaning of life, identity and the impact of exile. Hailed as the most important Arab poet of the modern day, Darwish's voice has c
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman · 544 pages