The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9780060541347 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet Sacred Cows ... And Other Edibles Racism 101 For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Tw... |
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
ISBN: 9780060724290 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967-1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Who Ride the Night Winds. Nikki self-published her first book Black Feeling, Black Talk/BlackJudgement in 1969, selling 10,000 copies; William Morrow published in 1970. Know for its iconic revolutionary phrases, it is heralded as one of the most important volumes of modern African-American... This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967-1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volum... |
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780141183879 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and... This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice a...
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Complete Poems
ISBN: 9780141185453 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935) along with a number of previously unpublished poems.
Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his... 2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem....
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Hip Logic
ISBN: 9780142001394 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second collection of poetry from the author ofLighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to... The second collection of poetry from the author ofLighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original... |
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Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780142437827 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists Paul Laurence Dunbar was "the most promising young colored man" in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written while he was an elevator boy in Ohio, established Dunbar as the premier writer of dialect poetry and garnered him international recognition. More than a vernacular lyricist, Dunbar was also a master of classical poetic forms, who helped demonstrate to post-Civil War America that literary...
Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists Paul Laurence Dunbar was "the most promising youn...
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
ISBN: 9780156028615 / Angielski / Miękka / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walker s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the last three decades. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 9-10, Poetry)"
Walker s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author s notes that provide historical pers...
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Black Moods: Collected Poems
ISBN: 9780252074684 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work. Cogently framed by John Edgar Tidwell's insightful introduction, this volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. His early work helped promote Chicago as a site of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1930s; late in his career the Black Arts Movement welcomed him as "the long lost father of modern Black poetry." Between these... Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished wor... |
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Conduit: [A Collection of Poems and Short Stories by Jon Goode]
ISBN: 9780996500487 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When on stage Jon Goode has a remarkable way of entertaining his audiences while simultaneously encouraging them to reflect profoundly on the critical issues of the day. This gift has been perfected and transferred to the written page in Conduit. Through poetry and prose Jon grants a glimpse of the world through his eyes artfully creating a relationship with his reader. The joys and pains, laughter and rage experienced in its pages become personal for each reader forcing an engagement with societies ills as if defending and protecting a loved one. Conduit is a book to be read, shared, and...
When on stage Jon Goode has a remarkable way of entertaining his audiences while simultaneously encouraging them to reflect profoundly on the critical...
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67,92 zł |
Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems
ISBN: 9780374530150 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In Taboo he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes Oroonoko "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his... With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that link... |
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Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
ISBN: 9780375405518 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experie...
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My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems
ISBN: 9780393307481 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love.
Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, a...
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Greed
ISBN: 9780393312010 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with "Riot Act," a monologue about the Los Angeles uprising in April 1992, Ai explored racial and sexual politics through the voices of diverse characters.
Beginning with "Riot Act," a monologue about the Los Angeles uprising in April 1992, Ai explored racial and sexual politics through the voices of dive...
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The Black Unicorn: Poems
ISBN: 9780393312379 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poems by Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Author of 10 volumes of poetry and five works of prose, Lorde was named New York State Poet in 1991 and was nominated for the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.
A collection of poems by Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Author of 10 volumes of poetry and five works of prose, Lorde was named New York State Poet in 1991 ...
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Ghost Volcano
ISBN: 9780393314472 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gilbert seeks both to elegize her husband and to understand his death in public, political, and philosophical contexts. Ghost Volcano is a tender, courageous, loving, and ultimately universal account of how we endure grief.
Gilbert seeks both to elegize her husband and to understand his death in public, political, and philosophical contexts. Ghost Volcano is a tender, cou...
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Before and After: Poems
ISBN: 9780393315554 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date--with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to the heart. InBefore and After, Smith effectively captures the intimate life of one family--in all its courage, deceit, misery, madness, love, revelation, and rage--and transforms it to record the life of the American family.
Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date--with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to th...
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Vice: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780393320183 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision."
Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trad...
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On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
ISBN: 9780393320268 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.
In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the ...
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Dread: Poems
ISBN: 9780393326192 / Angielski / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." "An undoubtedly powerful personae." Publishers Weekly "Ai's cleansing soliloquies give voice to pain both personal and communal.... Dread] presents her most masterfully unnerving works to date." Booklist "Dread has the characteristic moral strength that makes Ai a necessary poet." The New York Times Book Review"
In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own ba...
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American Smooth: Poems
ISBN: 9780393327441 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from the glorious shimmer of an operatic soprano to Bessie Smith's mournful wail; from paradise lost to angel food cake; from hotshots at the local shooting range to the Negro jazz band in World War I whose music conquered Europe before the Allied advance. Like the ballroom-dancing couple of the title poem, smiling and making the difficult seem...
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the gr...
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