Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. Women Studies. THE BONES, THE BREAKING, THE BALM: A COLORED GIRL'S HYMNAL (Penmanship Books, 2014) is Dominique Christina's first poetry collection.

Product Description: Blistering with defiance, tempered with tenderness and desire, Black is a startlingly passionate collection of poems from one of Canada’s most gifted writers. George Elliott Clarke combines fiery outrage with delicate confessions of love, creating a commentary on soul and culture that is both shocking and transformative...read more

Product Description: The poems in the first part of this book are set in and/or inspired by my walking safari in the South Luangwa Valley of Zambia in the summer of 2010. Some of the poems are whimsical responses to the guidebook, others taking serious the Mississippi-Africa axis in race relations...read more

Product Description: An eloquent chorus of voices from a variety of backgrounds. With unflinching honesty, well-known and emerging poets help us walk in their shoes as they struggle to claim authentic identity in today's culture.

A poet struggles to understand the role of the black man in America by evoking slave images to show the African-American family in crisis across three centuries. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Written over a period of twenty years, these poems are concerned, in the words of the poet, not with unconscious acquiescence to racist propaganda, but with the propaganda itself. In particular they are engaged with the manifestations of the propaganda and partly, at least in spirit, about the object of this propaganda: Africa...read more

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Product Description: Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian, Hispanic, and white culture, their diverse voices unite in a dialogue of poems which acknowledge and celebrate our differences while exploring America's shameful history of racial intolerance...read more

Product Description: poetry, from the 1940s-80s by Black scholar