Domain - Fiction

This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Bald...

Olive Schreiner, who was born in 1855 in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for thinking about the complex debates surrounding ge...

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed Jam...

Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black America...

Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets"Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field St...

With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murray’s sole book of poem...

Notes From Black ReadsA stunning way to honor the extraordinary life of Phillis Wheatley. Unlike a typical biography, Jeffers uses poetry to giv...

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780816550173 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Arizona Press Publication Date: 09-26-2023 Pages: 256

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new...

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780816551811 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Arizona Press Publication Date: 10-10-2023 Pages: 376

A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. ...

Winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti ...

Daughter is a collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman ...

Colorado Book Awards Finalist for Poetry Shortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small...

Maya Phillips’ stunning debut collection Erou borrows the framework of the traditional Greek epic to interrogate the inner workings of a present-...

A collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, an...

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. These poems ...