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English
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"The Weary Blues" is the powerful and ground-breaking collection of poetry by American author Langston Hughes. An important contribution to the growing Harlem Renaissance art movement, "The Weary Blues" was Hughes' first poetry collection and was published in 1926 when the author was only 24, though some of the poems had appeared earlier in magazines. An immediate critical success, Hughes created a new form of poetry, called jazz or blues poetry,...
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English
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Phillip B. Williams investigates the dangers of desire, balancing narratives of addiction, murders, and hate crimes with passionate, uncompromising depth. Formal poems entrenched in urban landscapes crack open dialogues of racism and homophobia rampant in our culture. Multitudinous voices explore one's ability to harm and be harmed, which uniquely juxtaposes the capacity to revel in both experiences.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Leon takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason Reynolds's For Everyone, this poem can now be read in a...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wide-ranging anthology of black poetry represents 250 famous and less-recognized poets from the colonial era to the present who used their powerful words to illuminate such issues as racism, slavery and the threatened African Diaspora identity.
9) My people
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
11) I am the rage
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Language
English
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"I Am the Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpoint of a Black woman in America. Dr. Martina McGowan is a retired MD, a mother, and a poet. Her poetry provides insights that no think piece on racism can; putting readers in the uncomfortable position of feeling, reflecting, and facing what it means to be a Black American. This entire collection was created during 2020, many shortly after the deaths...
Author
Publisher
Four Way Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An examination of a brutal America through the voices of its most vulnerable sons. In his debut collection ... Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer--the titular 'man in blue'--becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous, erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
120 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using The Golden Shovel poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is thought-provoking. This special book also includes original...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Legendary Beat figure Bob Kaufman considered poetry a key to human survival, an idea made all the more legitimate by the longevity it's granted: the things he saw, heard, tasted, felt, and, most of all, thought were preserved in his work. Embodying the spirit of those efforts, the new film from Billy Woodberry is perhaps the closest we can come to knowing the man and his time. The cumulative effect of AND WHEN I DIE is to understand a familiar, over-exposed...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (34 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson's interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats. Celebrates Fannie Lou Hamer's life and legacy with...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poem for Black Boys, she writes: "Where are your heroes, my little Black ones / You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot / Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse / You should play run-away-slave or Mau-Mau / These are more in line with your history." By the author of Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day.
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