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UP JUMP
THE BOOGIE
by John Murillo
"...headbreakingly
brilliant..."
(Junot Díaz)
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POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT
by Ronaldo V. Wilson
"...movement into what has never, never, in history, been said..."
(Wayne Koestenbaum)
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PRAYERS LIKE SHOES
by Ruth Forman
"...a poetry of deep love and warning ..."
(Carolyn Forché)
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TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE
by HUEY NEWTON
ed. Toni Morrison
"...compelling portrait of a young revolutionary determined to create a people's ethos..."
(Peniel Joseph)
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BROTHER TO BROTHER: NEW WRITINGS BY BLACK GAY MEN
ed. Essex Hemphill
"...pulses with the gasp and glory of humanity..."
(Samuel R. Delany)
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FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE HEAP
by Robert Hillary King
...strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society ...
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BLACK GYPSY:
THE RECORDINGS OF
EDDIE SOUTH
Anthony Barnett, Ed.
...collectible book
on the great
jazz violin virtuoso...
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SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD
by Henry Grimes
...rarely has a legend
been so brillantly (re)incarnated...
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WHO OWNS MUSIC?
by William Parker
"...one of the most important composers
and bassists
in the field of free
improvisaton.."
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TA(1)KING EYES
by Jacque Vaught Brogan
"...Lively, innovative and dancing with feminist passion..."
(Daniel T. O'Hara)
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HAMBONE 19
ed. Nathaniel Mackey
"...a vapour at the end of a frayed November sun..."
(Will Alexander)
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THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH
by Ed Roberson
"...like a seizure encompassing the moment..."
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WAITING FOR LIGHTNING TO STRIKE: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BLACK POLITICS
by Kevin Alexander Gray
"...radical and so his focus
is always ample and humane..."
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ON THE IMPERIAL HIGHWAY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
by Jayne Cortez
"...an explorer, probing the valleys and chasms of human existence..."
(Maya Angelou)
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HUGHSON'S TAVERN
by Fred Moten
"...big-eared book,
lining out and souding out, filled with
desperado aplomb..."
(Nathaniel Mackey)
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CONJURING BLACK FUNK: NOTES ON CULTURE, SEXUALITY, AND SPIRITUALITY VOL. 1
by Herukhuhi
" ...a sacred banquet of sex, sin and Spirit that few are ready to acknowledge; let alone eat..."
(Ron Simmons)
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SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION:
CONVERSATIONS III
by George Lamming
"...summons us to the urgency of our obligations..."
(Rex Nettleford)
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THE BOOK OF LIGHT
by Lucille Clifton
...awe and gratitude for a world of passionate discovery...
(a 1993 classic!)
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BAKE-FACE AND OTHER GUAVA STORIES
by Opal Palmer Adisa
"...Solid, viseral, important stories written with intergrity and love..."
(Alice Walker)
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THE 5TH INNING
by E. Ethelbert Miller
...a combination of
baseball
and the blues...
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GOSPEL
by Samiya Bashir
"...deftly reflective and full of rafter-rattling truths..."
(Patricia Smith)
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PLEASE
by Jericho Brown
"...the silent terror in these poems is the future..."
(Claudia Rankine)
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ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIRL
by J.F. Kearney
...full of suspense, the characters are inextricably connected to the death of an angel....
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SHAMING THE DEVIL
by G. Winston James
...an erotic, brutal, emotional and thoroughly thought-provoking debut collection...
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LONGER I WAIT,
MORE YOU LOVE ME
by Wendy S. Walters
"...a dream-radio in which tunes a wonderment of voices..."
(Alex Lemon)
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FOR KEEPS
by Eric Priestley
...secrets become lost myth from the lips of Griots to the blood of warriors...
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GUANAHANI, MY LOVE
by Marion Bethel
"...more sea, than land, of sugar and salt, 'the Caribbean, a home'..."
(Yolanda Wood)
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RAZOR BLADES BETWEEN MY TEETH
by Ashanti White
...eloquently captures the complex yet beautiful essence of human existence...
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AN UNMISTAKABLE SHADE OF RED AND THE OBAMA CHRONICLES
by Mary Weems
"...experience fueled by unerring focus..."
(Patricia Smith)
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THE SOUND OF DREAMS
REMEMBERED
Poems 1990-2000
by Al Young.
..essential
collection by the
former poet laureate
of California...
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BLACK MUSIC
by Leroi Jones
(Amiri Baraka)
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THE BLACK AUTOMATON
by Douglas Kearney
...Dark Comedy!
Bright Tragedy!
Douglas Kearney!...
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ON SPEC
by Tyrone Williams
...pigeonhole-shattering
poems from the advance
of the advance guard...
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