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Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us “an exalted Black privacy.” What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. “I am trying \/ to make the gods \/ happy,” she writes amid these portraits of her ancestors. “I am trying to make the dead \/ clap and shout.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780525658894 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"458.524\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593230480 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-1\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"675.602\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-1\" class=\"slot product-about 9780735220201 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"675.531\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN-13: 9781524732585\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Knopf Publishing Group\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":10435,\"3\":[null,4,\"\\\"$\\\"#,##0.00\"],\"4\":[null,2,16777215],\"9\":0,\"10\":2,\"14\":[null,2,0],\"16\":10}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\"}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ePublication Date: December 6, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43510814507256,"sku":"9781524732585","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/2156\/3811\/files\/totherealizationofperfecthelplessness.png?v=1701144672"},{"product_id":"the-wife-of-willesden-zadie-smith","title":"The Wife of Willesden","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593653739 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"607\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZadie Smith’s first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wife of Bath\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Married five times. 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Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people like Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voice their passionate resistance to slavery. Young’s fresh, revelatory presentation of the Harlem Renaissance reexamines the achievements of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen alongside works by lesser-known poets such as Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Mae V. Cowdery. The later flowering of the still influential Black Arts Movement is represented here with breadth and originality, including many long out-of-print or hard-to-find poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Room Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. This Library of America volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781598536669\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Library of America\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/span\u003e: October\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 20, 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 1,170\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\nbr {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43893093302520,"sku":"9781598536669","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/2156\/3811\/files\/africanamericanpoetry.png?v=1687093445"},{"product_id":"negative-money-lilian-yvonne-bertram","title":"Negative Money","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"left-rail-top\" class=\"product-body clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593482100 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"675.531\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593488157 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"607\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-1\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593638842 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"858.281\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9781593767532 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"538.469\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNegative Money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the binary thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor readers of Readers Claudia Rankine, Torrey Peters, Ocean Vuong, and Jericho Brown, NBA nominated Lillian-Yvonne Bertrams’s poems are innovative, conceptually thoughtful work. 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Proceeding from Toni Morrison’s aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(“I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography”),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWatch Your Language\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003echarts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. “If you don’t see suffering’s potential as art, will it remain suffering?” he asks in one of the lively mock poetry exam questions of this musing, mercurial collection. Hayes’s astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet’s routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN-13: 9780143137733\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication D\u003c\/span\u003eate: July 18, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 240\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43928271487224,"sku":"9780143137733","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/2156\/3811\/files\/watchyourlanguage.png?v=1689782201"},{"product_id":"plantains-and-our-becoming-melania-luisa-marte","title":"Plantains and Our Becoming","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593492543 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-1\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"995.344\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593492666 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"835.438\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593442982 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"972.5\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593539354 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"492.781\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780593471340 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"675.531\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging—for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow feel at home.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePoet and musician Melania Luisa Marte opens PLAINTAINS AND OUR BECOMING by pointing out that \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfro-Latina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis not a word recognized by the dictionary. 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