Name: Wise, Why's, Y's
Brand: Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka

Wise, Why's, Y's

$12.00

A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Blacks

$24.95

Here is a necessary collection of poetry for admirers of words and treasurers of literary beauty. Spanning more than 30 years, this collection of literary masterpieces by the venerable Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, arguably Illinois' most beloved Poet Laureate and Chicago's elder black literary stateswoman, ""Blacks"" includes all of Ms. Brooks' critically acclaimed writings. Within its covers is the groundbreaking ""Annie Allen,"" which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. There is also the sweepingly beautiful and finely crafted ""A Street in Bronzeville,"" a highly anticipated and lauded poetic treasure that spoke volumes for this great poet's love of black people, Chicago's Black community, and even the community of the world. ""Blacks"" includes a special treat, ""Maud Martha,"" Brooks' only novel.

Regina Jennings

Race, Rage, and Roses

$10.95

In this collection, Regina Jennings' poems passionately reveal the beauty and tragedy of women in the Black Panther Party and beyond. She explores the often haunting reality of growing up Black and female during the spirited, tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. In spare, often brutally honest narrative verse, Jennings spins stories of home, homelessness, and rebuilding home.

Gil Scott-Heron

So Far, So Good

$14.95

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 to be a keen analytical observer of the society and its impact upon the people.

Tony Medina

Committed to Breathing

$12.00

Emerging with a varied political sensibility, this book explodes the bourgeois self-indulgence of American culture to give a lambasting critique of its current global ultra-exploration and political repression. Exploring pressing and complicated social issues, the book incorporates humor, invective, and vigor while analyzing life, beauty, and the defiance of denial and despair.

Haki R Madhubuti

Run Toward Fear

$12.00

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, as well as heartfelt words that provide comfort and guidance to the families of the 21 people who lost their lives in Chicago's E-2 nightclub tragedy. The final section of the book, ""A Poet's Handbook,"" provides personal and sometimes anecdotal insights on the craft of writing poetry.

Haki R Madhubuti

Releasing the Spirit

$15.00

Poetry, short plays, and short stories written by young people as part of Chicago's Gallery 37 Project in 1997. The illustrations are also done by the youthful participants in Gallery 37. It was compiled and edited by Haki Madhubuti.

Allyson Horton

Quick Fire

$12.95

Gwendolyn Brooks

Primer for Blacks

$4.00

Brooks talks to her Black sisters and writes a short statement about the need for Black self-awareness.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live

$8.00

The poems are penned by a South African who observed and absorbed the culture of African Americans. These verses contain his observations of this Black culture and the connections with his native South Africa.

Sterling Plumpp

Ornate with Smoke

$12.95

Poetry that comes out of the jazz music of African American artists.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

$4.00

Brooks writes about Africa and the African Americans.

T M Stringfellow

More Than Dancing

$9.95

Challenging modern America's perspective on love, history, and race relations, these poems deviate from such techniques as free verse and abstraction to concentrate on structured forms such as odes and Italian sonnets. The unifying idea of the book also comes from the classics: the poet views black artists as Prometheus figures, giving fire and inspiration to American culture even when they are barely acknowledged. The poetry's message, however, is gritty and emotional--and sometimes deliberately sentimental--as it pits the joys of love, romance, and racial pride against the sorrows of slavery and segregation.

Kahil El'zabar

Mis Taken Brilliance

$8.00

Mis Taken Brilliance is percussionist extraordinaire Kahil El'Zabar's debut poetry collection. El'Zabar's many moods are expressed in an ecology of rhythm and rifts, harmony and phraseology. El'Zabar is the talking drummer who revels in the textures, the tonality, and beat of life.

Useni Eugene Perkins

Memories & Images

$12.00

Perkins reveals his personal development into his present philosophy as he recounts his childhood, extols his heroes, and sings about the jazz greats.

Sterling D Plumpp

Home/Bass

$18.95

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Home/Bass ""brings to the forefront the myriad of folks that inhabit the up-South streets of Chicago or the unaltered roads of Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and other pockets inhabited by Blacks throughout the South. Sterling Plumpp has lived with these folks--sharecroppers, preachers, misplaced Mississippi blues men and women. He has been in their houses, has dined at their tables, and has drunk at the bars on the corners. He is not a stranger to their articulations--voices that call to him from a Natchez cemetery, from the outskirts of some Mississippi Delta town, or settle on Maxwell Street in Chicago--all through the observant and often omnipresent lens of blues artist Willie Kent. Plumpp is always mindful of the slow, steady rhythms of the blues, not as backdrop, but as the foundation and framework on which he structures the components of this book. With the publication of ""Home/Bass, ""Plumpp has once again captured the very essence of language and the blues from the inside out.

Quraysh Ali Lansana

They Shall Run

$10.95

These poems trace the journeys of the great Black historical figure Harriet Tubman and her fugitives through the backwoods of America.

Gwendolyn Brooks

To Disembark

$8.00

Unforgettable poetic imagery by one of the greatest female African American poets that captures the viality and complexity of Black life.

Kalamu Y Salaam

What Is Life?

$14.95

An eclectic group of poems and essays using the theme of Black culture as the thread. Salaam engages in a self assessment of his life and work using the template of Black culture.

Kelly Norman Ellis

The Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS

$15.95

As HIV continues to change life on this planet, encouraging tough conversations about sex, sexual orientation, healthy relationships and trust, it invigorates those young and old to challenge the status quo of silence. Editors Kelly Norman Ellis and M.L. Hunter have assembled established and emerging writers and artists from around the globe, such as American Book Award and Pew Fellowship winner Lamont B. Steptoe; renown poet and educator Tony Medina; and Emmy award-winner Kwame Dawes, for this haunting and inspiring collection of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction that paints living portraits of HIV/AIDS.

The Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS

Gwendolyn Brooks

Winnie

$4.00

A group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South Africa.

Aneb Kgositsile

Shrines

$8.95

This collection of poetry explores the intimate beauty of our most sacred places. The landscape of these poems is as far-reaching as the continent of Africa and as close as the next room.

Sterling Plumpp

Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth

$13.95

This collection is the third in a trilogy of poetic works created by Sterling Plumpp to allow audiences to explore the language of music articulated through the nuances of jazz, blues, and bebop. The poetry in Velvet Be Bop Kente Cloth utilizes distinct rhythms and a non-conventional use of line and line breaks. It also draws upon the musical innovations established by Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillispie, and others.