AFRICAN CONTRIBUTION TO CIVILIZATION
Publisher : BLACKLEGACYPRESS.ORG
July 26, 2018
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-163652-142-8
$21.95
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666 THE NUMBER OF THE ANTICHRIST
Publisher : BTB
Paperback : 25 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781636520605
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Yakub, the Father of Mankind
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1884855792
ISBN-13 : 978-1884855795
$19.95
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Wisdom of Egypt and the Old Testament in the Light of the Newly Discovered Teachings of Amen-em-ope
Publisher: BTB Publishing
Paperback
ISBN: 9781636520735
$15.95
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The Africans Who Wrote the Bible
Publisher : HBC Publications
Paperback : 364 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781884631047
$29.95
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Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge
Publisher : Africa World Pr (November 1, 1990)
Paperback : 214 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865431892
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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ
Publisher : Orkos press (December 4, 2014)
Paperback : 436 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781592329540
$18.95
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The African Origin of Western Civilization: Cadmus Europa (Paperback)
Revisit the origins of Western civilization in the company of author C. Herbert Oliver, who, in Cadmus and Europa, examines literary relics with the eye of an archeologist. The author's thesis is that the basic sciences and the tools of...
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OUR DEAD BEHIND US: POEMS
In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force? activism." As Marilyn Hacker...
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SO FAR, SO GOOD
A collection of poems written by the progressive jazz artist, Gil Scott Heron. These works are very political in nature and comment on the current matters of interest during the period of the 1970s and 1980s. The artist shows himself...
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THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful...
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POEMS: MAYA ANGELOU
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our...
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FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all...
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THE BLACK UNICORN: POEMS
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents...
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SELECTED POEMS
By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all. In...
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DON'T CALL US DEAD: POEMS
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and...
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THE TRADITION
"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."—Craig Morgan Teicher, “'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview” for NPR “A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult...
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THE HILL WE CLIMB - POETRY COLLECTION (Available September 21, 2021)
Including "The Hill We Climb," the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in America poetry. Product details...
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AUDRE LORDE
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."―Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms―beautifully, forcefully―for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."―Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection...
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THE PANTHER & THE LASH
The poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time.In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always...
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I SHALL NOT BE MOVED: POEMS
The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This new volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Product details Publisher : Random House; Reissue edition (May 13,...
$16.95
RUN TOWARD FEAR: NEW POEMS AND A POETS HANDBOOK (COMING SOON)
Run Toward Fear offers readers a mixture of poems that challenge and cause both reflection on and questioning about many headline issues that have launched this century. Madhubuti includes poignant moving tributes to Jacob Carruthers, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka,...
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KILLING MEMORY, SEEKING ANCESTORS
Written in the tradition and style of the Black Arts Movement, this collection contains lyrical poems, laced with satirical allusions and political exhortations to Black readers. Product details Paperback : 58 pages ISBN-10 : 0883780933 Reading age : 14 - 17 years Item...
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THE ART OF THE POETIC LINE
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens this provocative book with that essential statement. Through a range of examples―from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück―Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic,...
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LIP GLOSS AND BATTLE BOOTS (Coming Soon)
Award winning poet Aisha Ms. Brown Johnson , and freelance journalist Candace Daki Simmons merge the worlds of literature, hip hop, and popular culture in their new book, Lip Gloss & Battle Boots: A Handbook for Lovers and WarriorsLip Gloss...
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THE HEADLESS SAINTS
Poetry. African American Studies. "Myronn Hardy's THE HEADLESS SAINTS is a book comprised of lyrical epiphanies that embrace the everyday and the mythical, and there is no way to escape the full thrust of these marvelous poems. The tropical feel...
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SHAHID READS HIS OWN PALM
Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom....
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THE PROSAIC SOUL OF NIKKI GIOVANNI
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the...
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COOLING BOARD: A LONG-PLAYING POEM
In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Douglas uses persona poetry to explore the personal and professional struggles of soul legend Donny Hathaway in his debut collection Cooling Board: a Long-Playing Poem....
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THE MAVERICK ROOM
A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty.And yet another anthem and yet another heavenand yet another party wants you.Wants you wants you wants you.―from "Groovallegiance" In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, "Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show...
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SONATA MULATTICA: A LIFE IN FIVE MOVEMENTS AND A SHORT PLAY
The son of a white woman and an “African Prince,” George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) travels to Vienna to meet “bad-boy” genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer’s subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with...
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QUILTING THE BLACK-EYED PEA: POEMS AND NOT QUITE POEMS
In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between mothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more. Product details Publisher...
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GROUNDWORK: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF DON L. LEE/HAKI R. MADHUBUTI FROM 1966-1996 (COMING SOON)
Thirty years of poems and a few essays of Don L. Lee beginning in the militant Black Arts Movement and metamorphosing into the more mature yet critical voice of Lee as Haki R. Madhubuti. The subject is consistently political and...
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FINGERNAILS ACROSS THE CHALKBOARD: POETRY AND PROSE ON HIV/AIDS FROM THE BLACK DIASPORA
Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate...
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HEAVENLY VERSES
Heavenly Verses is a collection of poetry created from an overwhelming desire to share the love of Jesus Christ with the world. It encompasses the forms of haiku, traditional, and freestyle verses. Most of all, it affirms the beliefs of...
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POINT BLANK: POEMS
"In Point Blank, we are given an intimate look at one man's inner and outer life, but there's no navel-gazing nonsense. There's always an awareness, implied or explicit, of the sociopolitical crucible. With language both tough-minded and celebratory, Alan King ignites the...
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HONEST ENGINE: POEMS
In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but...
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EVEN THE STARS LOOK LONESOME
Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she recreates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how...
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HAIKU: THIS OTHER WORLD
Wright discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man’s relationship, not only to his fellow man as he...
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CONVERSATION PIECES: POEMS THAT TALK TO OTHER POEMS
Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's...
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FOREST PRIMEVAL: POEMS
"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in...
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HEAVEN IS ALL GOODBYES: POCKET POETS NO. 61
This is truly revolutionary poetry. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spills forth from a choir living in oppression and transience. Moments of political and spiritual convergence, surrealism and blunt materiality, gangsterism and its husk, revolution...
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LOVE POEMS
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in...
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S O S: POEMS 1961-2013
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. This volume comprises the fullest spectrum of his rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to unpublished pieces...
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FELON: POEMS
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems―canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace―and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life....
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THE 100 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN POEMS
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. A startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects...
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US(A.)
After four years abroad, Williams returned to the United States and found his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom, guns, cooking shows, dog shows, superheroes, not-so-super politicians—everything that makes up our country. US(a.) is a collection of poems...
$16.00