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9780813060446 | Univ Pr of Florida, February 3, 2015, cover price $34.95

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9780813062006 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Florida, March 1, 2016), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Slaves in chains, toiling on master's plantation. Beatings, bloodied whips. This is what many of us envision when we think of 19th century African Americans; source materials penned by those who suffered in bondage validate this picture...read more
By Fidel Louis (editor)

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9781588382986 | New South Inc, June 15, 2014, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Slaves in chains, toiling on master's plantation.

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Product Description: This anthology of never-before-published poems showcases a new generation of African women poets, some familiar, some just beginning their literary careers. Their rich voices belie popular stereotypes, reflecting the diversity and dynamism of their environment...read more

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9781588268686 | Lynne Rienner Pub, April 23, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This anthology of never-before-published poems showcases a new generation of African women poets, some familiar, some just beginning their literary careers.

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By Marcellus Blount (editor)

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9781402716898 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, January 1, 2013, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: A collection of poems from the 2015 Newbery Medalist, Kwame Alexander If I can have a literary son, I like to think it is Kwame Alexander...Hard worker, truth seeker, soul sharer. --Nikki Giovanni Like the minimalist, melodic, melancholy music of 20th century French Composer Erik Satie, poet Kwame Alexander's parsed, fecund words dance their way into one's heart, head...read more

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9781479120475 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 13, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems from the 2015 Newbery Medalist, Kwame Alexander If I can have a literary son, I like to think it is Kwame Alexander.

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Product Description: In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States...read more
By Robert S. Levine (editor) and Ivy G. Wilson (editor)

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9780807834459 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S.

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9780807871782 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S.

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By Nikki Giovanni (editor)

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9781402221118 | 1 har/com edition (Sourcebooks Mediafusion, November 1, 2010), cover price $24.99

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Product Description: The Seasons of LOVEBrenda H. Andrews

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9781453545041 | Xlibris Corp, July 27, 2010, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The Seasons of LOVEBrenda H.

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9781453545034 | Xlibris Corp, July 27, 2010, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Seasons of LOVEBrenda H.

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Product Description: This collection of poems honors the Everyday: a mother's birthday, a grandparent's passing, a broken heart, the students she advocates for and supports in their own artistic quests.

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9781450097734 | Xlibris Corp, April 23, 2010, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This collection of poems honors the Everyday: a mother's birthday, a grandparent's passing, a broken heart, the students she advocates for and supports in their own artistic quests.

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9781450024006 | Xlibris Corp, April 23, 2010, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This collection of poems honors the Everyday: a mother's birthday, a grandparent's passing, a broken heart, the students she advocates for and supports in their own artistic quests.

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Product Description: The book provides readers with a thorough and unified topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. KEY TOPICS: The book examines is connections with Judeo-Christian morals. The integration of the doctrinal and devotional elements of Islam enables readers to see how Muslims think and live...read more

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9780023285202 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1985, cover price $36.00 | also contains An Introduction to Islam, The Forerunners: Black Poets in America | About this edition: The book provides readers with a thorough and unified topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam.

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Product Description: Black rain is a book of compiled poerty written by myself through out the last couple of years. It talks about life and how it can really tear us down; how we must build ourselves up. Most people might precieve it as sad because of the title but it's not sad at all it's a stand point of self reflection and a reminder that we as humans are blessed in so many ways that we take for granted...read more

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9781425912918 | Authorhouse, May 30, 2006, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Black rain is a book of compiled poerty written by myself through out the last couple of years.

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By Kevin Young (editor)

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9780375414589 | Everymans Library, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. DRAG by Duriel E. Harris is a PoMoFunk symphony weaving the harmonics of language and culture into a transcendent whole. Forrest Hamer said: "We've been waiting for this book. DRAG is an exciting and significant debut collection from a gifted artist...read more

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9781932418002 | Elixir Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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A stunning collection pairs twenty poems by distinguished African-American poets with twenty works of art by acclaimed African-American artists, including names such as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence.
By Belinda Rochelle (editor)

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9780688164157 | Amistad Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Pairs twenty works of art by African American artists with twenty poems by twenty African American poets.

Library:

9780060293635 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Pairs twenty works of art by African American artists with twenty poems by twenty African American poets.

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Product Description: Book by
By Eric Sackheim (editor) and Jonathan Shahn (illustrator)

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9780880013284 | Reissue edition (Ecco Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Sixteen poems about riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend, and other topics evoke an appreciation of the richness of everyday life and the joys of seeing with eyes of love

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9780690013344 | Ty Crowell Co, February 1, 1978, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sixteen poems about riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend, and other topics evoke an appreciation of the richness of everyday life and the joys of seeing with eyes of love

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9780064430975, titled "Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1986), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Sixteen poems about riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend, and other topics evoke an appreciation of the richness of everyday life and the joys of seeing with eyes of love

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9780690038453 | Ty Crowell Co, March 1, 1978, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Sixteen poems about riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend, and other topics evoke an appreciation of the richness of everyday life and the joys of seeing with eyes of love

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9780606018616, titled "Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems" | Demco Media, May 1, 1986, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: Sixteen poems about riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend, and other topics evoke an appreciation of the richness of everyday life and the joys of seeing with eyes of love

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A collection of poems on such topics as the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, and the simple joys of a lover's warmth and a daughter's homecoming

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9780151421695 | Reissue edition (Harcourt, September 1, 1988), cover price $1.98 | About this edition: A collection of poems on such topics as the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, and the simple joys of a lover's warmth and a daughter's homecoming

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9780156421737 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, March 1, 1986), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems on such topics as the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, and the simple joys of a lover's warmth and a daughter's homecoming
9780704339620 | Gardners Books, April 1, 1985, cover price $10.55 | About this edition: Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns.

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Product Description: The book provides readers with a thorough and unified topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. KEY TOPICS: The book examines is connections with Judeo-Christian morals. The integration of the doctrinal and devotional elements of Islam enables readers to see how Muslims think and live...read more

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9780023285202, titled "An Introduction to Islam" | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1985, cover price $36.00 | also contains An Introduction to Islam, An Introduction to Islam | About this edition: The book provides readers with a thorough and unified topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam.
9780882580937 | Howard Univ Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A selection of poems by sixteen Black poets who came to prominence in the thirties, forties, and fifties, including Bontemps, Brooks, Owen, Dodson, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright

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