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“crystal simone smith”

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  • Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America

    An Erasure

    by Crystal Simone Smith ...
    From an award-winning poet, a rousing act of erasure poetry that compels us to reexamine one of America’s most significant founding textsCrystal Simone Smith's powerful work exposes the uncomfortable truth about America's founding text. While Common Sense is celebrated as a cornerstone of American democracy, Thomas Paine's arguments for "total freedom and equality" were written exclusively for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ghost Woman

    A Rising

    by Crystal Simone Smith ...
    In Ghost Woman, Crystal Simone Smith explores the long and deep connections between nature, personhood, ancestry, and trauma through haiku and haibun. Separated into five sections, the poems emphasize the way social bonds and landscapes are reflected in and through the environment. Smith brings her experiences with race, motherhood, and poetry into conversation with the five elements, Wind (fu), ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Runagate

    Songs of the Freedom Bound

    by Crystal Simone Smith ...
    Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness to the brutal and horrifying treatment of enslaved ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dark Testament

    Blackout Poems

    by Crystal Simone Smith ...
    In this extraordinary collection, the award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith gives voice to the mournful dead, their lives unjustly lost to violence, and to the grieving chorus of protestors in today's Black Lives Matter movement, in search of resilience and hope.With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Dust Tracks on a Road

    An Autobiography

    by Zora Neale Hurston ...
    “Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerFrom Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography—now available in a limited Olive Edition.First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant ... Read more

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  • The Barn at the End of the World

    The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

    by Mary Rose O'Reilley ...
    "About the subtlest, most sane-making book on contemporary spirituality that I've read in years. It's also the funniest."—Joanna Macy, author of Active HopeDeciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her ... Read more

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  • Appalachian Elegy

    Poetry and Place

    by bell hooks ...
    Series series Kentucky Voices
    Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand up against a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books ... Read more

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  • Emerson, the Stoics, and Me

    Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life

    by Mark Matousek ...

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  • Learning to Fall

    The Blessings of an Imperfect Life

    by Philip Simmons ...
    A “reflective, eloquent [and] inspiringly written” (The New York Times) collection of essays about learning to live richly in the face of loss“Astonishing . . . sometimes heartbreaking . . . sometimes hilarious.”—The Boston GlobeWINNER OF THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD’S BEST SPIRITUAL BOOKPhilip Simmons was just thirty-five years old in 1993 when he learned that he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s ... Read more

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  • The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

    by Willie Lynch ...
    Willie Lynch, a British slave owner from the West Indies, stepped onto the shores of colonial Virginia in 1712, bearing secrets that would shape the fate of generations to come. Within this manuscript, allegedly transcribed from Lynch’s speech to American slaveholders on the banks of the James River, lies a blueprint for subjugation. Lynch’s genius lay not in brute force but in psychological ... Read more

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  • Burning Sugar

    by Cicely Belle Blain ...
    Cicely Belle Blain is the CEO of a social justice-informed diversity and inclusion consulting company with more than 100 clients worldwide. They are the founder of Black Lives Matter Vancouver and one of 150 Black women and non-binary people making change across Canada. Cicely Belle is an instructor in executive leadership at Simon Fraser University. Burning Sugar is their first book. ... Read more

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