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Black Crow Dress
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Roxane Beth Johnson |
**33rd Annual Northern California Book Award Nominee**
“*Black Crow Dress* is narrative, yet it subverts narrative in its deliberate cultivation of the fragment; its rhythms are those of the blues… |
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Bury my clothes
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Roger Bonair-Agard |
"Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Art-specifically in oppressed communities-is about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establis… |
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Indecency
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Justin Phillip Reed |
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture… |
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Hum
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Jamaal May |
"In May's debut collection, the human body is machine, manufactured in the motor city, alive with the urban sounds and beats. Poems buzz and purr like well-oiled chassis. Grit and trial and song thru… |
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Heaven
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips |
"A spectacularly vibrant and continually surprising collection from one of the poetry world's rising young stars "Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none … |
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Incorrect merciful impulses
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Camille Rankine |
"Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of race, doubt, and identity. The c… |
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Dated emcees
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Chinaka Hodge |
"Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop-and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content as she examines her love life through the… |
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The sweet flypaper of life
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Roy DeCarava,Langston Hughes |
The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) is the result of a collaborative effort between photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes. Their unique fusion of words and images provides an opportunity… |
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