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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry (PB) (2023)
$20.00From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance... -
The Fire Next Time (CD) (2008)
$14.95At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement... -
In the Presence of Absence (PB) (2011)
$16.00One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to... -
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (PB) (2008)
$17.99Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth... -
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes (HC) (2024)
$25.00Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Before Langston... -
Everybody's Protest Novel: Essays (HC) (2024)
$20.00"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."--Toni Morrison This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful... -
Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon (PB) (2023)
$27.95Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.95Subtotal: -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (HC) (2018)
$35.00Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
$26.95Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$26.95Subtotal: -
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$15.00Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of... -
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck (HC) (2024)
$27.00One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 "Award-winning novelist Brand, Toronto's former poet laureate, melds autobiography and literary criticism to offer a shrewd, intimate reading of the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century novels that shaped... -
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex (PB) (1994)
$21.00Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Audre Lorde's classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam...