Mintah--one of the hundred African slaves thrown off a ship--climbs back aboard, where she hides and taunts the crew responsible for the demise of her shipmates

Product Description: Acclaimed novelist, playwright, and poet Fred D’Aguiar has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize in poetry for Bill of Rights, his narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory...read more

Product Description: A book of geographies, this collection chronicles the poet’s history as it traces the places where he has lived and taught. Written by an immigrant, this book also masterfully tackles political topics, including the war on terror and terror itself: its causes and effects...read more

Product Description: The poems in Global Poetry Anthology: 2011 are new, previously unpublished works from around the world, selected in a “blind” process by a team of editors from Australia, Guyana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malawi, Nigeria, the U...read more

Product Description: From memories of a childhood in Guyana through an elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, this poetry collection journeys from youth to maturing and from continent to continent. Celebrating individuals and the histories embedded in places, this compilation recollects the smell of bitumen, the local hero who came in last in the National Cycle Championship, and the 33 unique individuals who perished in Virginia...read more

Ranging from the Civil War to the present, this poetic historical novel in verse form chronicles the lives and fortunes of five characters--Tom and Stella, runaway slaves turned operatives for the Underground Railroad; Faith, a black slave; Christy, her white lover; and their son (the narrator). By the award-winning author of The Longest Memory. Reprint.

Product Description: This narrative poem takes the reader into the psyche of a young man caught up in the mass suicide that took place in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.

Ever since Red Head had been hit in the head by an ax at age nine, he has experienced terrifying visions of the future, and his magically inclined family members help him accept the strangeness and wonder of his life, but the possible reelection of a cruel president could shatter his family's delicate peace. Reprint. K.

The story of a rebellious and fiercely intelligent young slave and the escape attempt that cost him his life is told from the perspectives of his father, the master, the master's daughter, and the overseer's son. Reprint. NYT. K. PW.

An intelligent, fiercely independent young slave attempts to flee a Virginia plantation during the early 1800s, only to be betrayed by his own father. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by D'Aguiar, Fred

Product Description: A collection of short lyrics and a long poem by the British/Guyanese poet who won the T.S.Eliot Prize and, after the publication of his first volume of poetry "Mama Dot", won the Guyanese National Poetry Award.