| 1. |  | Selected Poems (P.S.)
from Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Price: $11.11
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Brooks is a poet whose best known poems actually conceal her greatness from readers of poetry. To know Brooks by "We Real Cool" is just like knowing Williams by the wheelbarrow poem and the plums in the fridge. This is crazy!
I'm hard pressed to think of a standard that anybody could use to... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Teahouse of the Almighty (National Poetry)
from Coffee House Press
Price: $10.88
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I purchased Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty for I had selected her as my concentration poet for a workshop class I was taking. I had been quite fond of Patricia Smith because of her piece "Biting Back", and had a peculiar anticipation when beginning this collection. She didn't let me down at... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)
from Heinemann
Price: $9.95
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Okot P'Bitek did what most writers dream of doing when he completed this book. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol is a fulfiling work of art. It is poetry in the best sense of the word and is based in Africa in the advent of the revolution to mordernize the continent, it shows the stuggles between the... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | We Speak Your Names
from Blackstone Audiobooks
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This was awe inspiring. The wording was superb and the flow was impeccable. It spoke what my heart believes.
Dr. Laura B. Christopher | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Windcatcher: New & Selected Poems 1964-2006
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Price: $15.64
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Reviewed by Beth Cummings
Subtitled: New and Selected Poems 1964-2006
Breyten Breytenbach was born and raised in South Africa. He spent some of his college years in France where he married a French-Vietnamese woman. Upon returning to South Africa, during the apartheid years, he was... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
from Basic Civitas Books
Price: $14.78
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s _The Trials Phillis Wheatley_ considers Phillis Wheatley's career through the eyes of her readers over two centuries, from elite Massachussetts whites who in 1772 quizzed Wheatley to determine if she, a young slave, had indeed composed the poems herself, to twentieth-century... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems
from Seven Stories Press
Price: $15.16
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Ingrid de Kok's "Seasonal Fires" (Seven Stories Press, 2006) is a masterpiece! I am not a big fan of poets who crank out "Greatest Hits" of their work mid-way through their careers; wait until its over for the "selected" editions to come out. But I reconsidered that after reading this book.
I... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Cape Coast Castle. A Collection of Poems
from Afram Publ. (Ghana) Ltd
Price: $11.95
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| 9. |  | Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History (Carter G Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies)
from University of Virginia Press
Price: $22.50
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| 10. |  | Kalakuta Republic
from Saqi Books
Price: $11.86
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The transformation of horrific experiences and psychological trauma into something more powerful than pain. Abani is simply sizzling and brilliant in this book. The poems, all heart-rending, represent voices that desire freedom. Each poem is full of vitality. This book is a testimony from an ex... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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