Category - Literary Criticism
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African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book explores the "battles" of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive,...
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Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth centu...
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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jeri...
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Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka's oeuvre. Some Other Blues consi...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection--more than 3,500 pages of d...
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A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, "is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation...
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Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the p...
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Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
HardcoverOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record o...
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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose address...
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Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper
HardcoverOriginal price $200.00 - Original price $200.00Original price $200.00$239.99$239.99 - $239.99Current price $239.99| /Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the t...
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A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiri...
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Dear Darkness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Delivered in Young's classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that tim...
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, re...
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Black Bard of North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature...
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American Negro Poetry: An Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), a...
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Nowhere to Arrive
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of di...
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $7.95 - Original price $7.95Original price $7.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /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...
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Poetic Intention
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant argues for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a ...
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Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods: Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Examining three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - this book reframes contemporary scho...
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Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience o...
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Mint Editions (Voices From API)
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in English and J...
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Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In Our Difficult Sunlight, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia Popoff demonstrate the power of poetry in the K-12 classroom. Drawing on their combined ...
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The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop (And You Can Too!)
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as an advisor and a friend, providing personal and practical advice on how to tea...
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (A Library of America Anthology)
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA deep, beautiful and comprehensive overview of African American poetry from 1770 to the present day. You could literally ...
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