Poetry - African

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of...

Timely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.Author: Aracelis GirmayPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 04/12/2016Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781942683025Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/21/2016Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 97Booklist 04/15/2016 pg....

Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab worldAuthor: Mahmoud DarwishPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9781556592416About the AuthorMahmoud Darwish is the Poet Laureate of Palestine and the author of the Palestinian national...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite...

Winner of the 2023 Julie Suk Award Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book Award Finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott...

Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC WriterISELE MAGAZINE EDITOR'S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 THE MODACULTURE 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025 OPEN COUNTRY MAGAZINE ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo Agarau...

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYA new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War I'm a song, changing. I'm a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness....

TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build--meticulously and with principled care--a vision of...

We Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and restore color to the white-washed notions about the dark and terrifying...

In dreams and memories, night poems and a centos, Wildness Before Something Sublime emerges at the edge of language to excavate the body--its desires and griefs.Leila Chatti's Wildness Before Something Sublime confronts a world defined by dualities--love and loss, wonder and despair, the gift...