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  • The Promise of Language

    A Memoir

    by Keith Gilyard, Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    Recounting a life—and language—by an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric.Finalist for Foreword Indies Book Awards in the Autobiography/ Memoir category!Featured in 2026 AUPress Book, Jacket, and Journal Show!In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching

    Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

    by April C. E. Langley, Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    A timely invocation of early Black Christian women writers and their legacy of activism.Weaving together the legacies of early Black Christian women, author April C. E. Langley explores the foundational ways in which faith, poetics, and spirituality have shaped Black activism in the United States. In Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching, Langley employs Afrofuturist and Sankofic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roses and Revolutions

    The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall

    by Dudley Randall ...
    Series series African American Life
    Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his life, much of his work is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Protests of 2020

    Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality

    by Joyce A. Joyce, Élan R. Alford, Melba Joyce Boyd, Yvonne Fulmore, Carissa M. Harris, Everett Hoagland, Quincy Scott Jones, Ana-Maurine Lara, Wende Marshall, Ewuare Osayande0, Donna Marie Peters1, Edythe Rodriguez2, Margarita M. Castromán Soto3, Yolanda Wisher4, Walter R. Gholson III5, Gregory E. Rutledge6 ...
    The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Wrestling with the Muse

    Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

    by Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    And as I groped in darknessand felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914–2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

    by Velvet Films, Inc., Raoul Peck ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation ... Read more

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  • 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    "A really beautiful book" of poems that delve into—and help us transcend—suffering, loss, fear, and loneliness, by the author of How to Read a Poem ( The Boston Globe).Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Poetry 2009

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by David Wagoner, David Lehman ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry—"a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Eagerly anticipated by scholars, students, readers, and poets alike, Scribner’s Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world, serving as a yearly guide to who’s who in American ... Read more

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  • The New York Times Book Review

    125 Years of Literary History

    by The New York Times ...
    A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

    How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character.Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and ... Read more

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  • A Carnival Of Losses

    Notes Nearing Ninety

    by Donald Hall ...
    Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD