The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
American Poetry
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Auteur:Pineda, Jon, de la Paz, OliverSommaire:The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial identity, the haunting loss of his sister, and...
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Auteur:Whitman, WaltSommaire:One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became uniquely American. Written in a pure, uninhibited style with a joyous voice, Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece.
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Auteur:Meyers, SusanSommaire:Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her...
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Auteur:Scott, JoannaSommaire:New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and...
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Auteur:Sommaire:From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers. This powerful and diverse, this unique collection spans three...
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Auteur:Gills, DedanSommaire:Belvie and Dedan's journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada--including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail--planting trees and building community in cities like Toronto...
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Auteur:Dameron, DéLana R. A.Sommaire:DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry...
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Auteur:Shapero, NatalieSommaire:Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon."--Houston Chronicle "Shapero's poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things."-Volta Thought-...
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Auteur:Evans, WorthySommaire:Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous outpouring of poems, pent up during...
- Auteur:Vincent, John EmilSommaire:
Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails. The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to life, whether Ganymede's...
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Auteur:Dickinson, EmilySommaire:Four well-known actresses read these poems by this great American poet. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems convey a penetrating vision of the natural world as well as the most profound human truths.
- Auteur:Schönmaier, EleonoreSommaire:
A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
- Auteur:Glück, LouiseSommaire:
Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a...
- Auteur:Lauterbach, Ann.Sommaire:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry In Ann Lauterbach's eleventh collection...
- Auteur:Franco, JamesSommaire:
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco. I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face—In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go...
- Auteur:Hodge, ChinakaSommaire:
Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop-and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's...
- Auteur:Book, ShaneSommaire:
At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book's Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of...
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Auteur:Harjo, JoySommaire:From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
- Auteur:Rankine, ClaudiaSommaire:
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are...
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