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Soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics)
June Jordan and Staceyann Chin (Foreword)
Harlem Moon
Paperback
9780767918466
2004
$15.00
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Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
Staceyann Chin
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The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
Staceyann Chin
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The Essential June Jordan
June Jordan
$18.00
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
June Jordan
$24.00
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Passion
June Jordan
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We're On: a June Jordan Reader
Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi, and June Jordan
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Civil Wars
June Jordan
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Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays of June Jordan
June Jordan
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Haruko: Love Poems
June Jordan
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His Own Where (Contemporary Classics)
June Jordan and Sapphire (Introduction)
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Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems
June Jordan
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall (editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (epilogue), Florence "Flo" Kennedy (contributor), Patricia Hill Collins (contributor), June Jordan (contributor), Michele Wallace (contributor), Pearl Cleage (contributor), Angela Yvonne Davis (contributor), Barbara Smith (contributor), and Combahee River Collective (contributor)
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Barbara Smith (editor), Audre Lorde, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, June Jordan, Jewelle Gomez, Alice Walker, Luisah Teish, Gloria Hull, Michelle Cliff, and Bernice Johnson Reagon
$31.00
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On Call
June Jordan
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The Essential Neruda : Selected Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner, Robert Hass, Stephen Mitchell, Alastair Reid, Forrest Gander, Stephen Kessler, and John Felstiner
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Beautiful. And Ugly Too
M.K. Asante Jr.
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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture)
Pablo Neruda and Margaret Sayers Peden
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Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence
Pablo Neruda, Luis Poirot, and Alastair Reid
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Mahmoud Darwish
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Gospel: Poems
Samiya A. Bashir
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Last Rights: Poems
Marvin K. White
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Nothin' Ugly Fly: Poems
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Love Conjure/blues
Sharon Bridgforth
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Our Name be Witness
Marvin K. White
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Bertolt Brecht
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
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Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays of June Jordan
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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The Freelance Pallbearers
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Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott-Heron
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Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
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Another Country (Vintage International)
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Go Tell It On the Mountain
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American hunger
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Black Boy
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The Best of Simple
Langston Hughes
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The Vulture and the Nigger Factory
Gil Scott-Heron
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His Own Where (Contemporary Classics)
June Jordan and Sapphire (Introduction)
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Juice! (American Literature Series)
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The Color Purple
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Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Langston Hughes
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
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Going to Meet the Man: Stories
James Baldwin
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Black Voices (Signet Classics)
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Leroi Jones, Richard Wright, and Malcolm X
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Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Edition)
Langston Hughes
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Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection
Pauline Hopkins (Author)
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The Spook who Sat by the Door: A Novel
Sam Greenlee
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Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s
Rafia Zafar (Editor), George Samuel Schuyler, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, and Rudolph Fisher
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Conversations With Octavia Butler
Conseula Francis and Octavia E. Butler
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A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story
Sister Souljah
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Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Sister Souljah
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Iron City: A Novel
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker
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I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Coming
Daniel Black
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Donald Goines
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Black Empire
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Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).
Imamu Amiri Baraka
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The Complete Stories
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After the Rain
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A More Perfect Union
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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
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Haint: Poems
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For My People
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This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems
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Black Shield Maiden
Willow Smith and Jess Hendel
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Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Norman Mailer
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Alice Walker
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Refuse: Poems
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Imago
Octavia E. Butler
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Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men
Essex Hemphill
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The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Imamu Amiri Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, and William J. Harris
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The Man Who Changed Colors
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
Anastacia-Renee
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
James Baldwin
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Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Leroi Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka
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Clay's Ark
Octavia E. Butler
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A Mercy (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison
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The Space Between: The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving
A'Niya Taylor
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Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)
Margaret Walker
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Bloodmarked
Tracy Deonn
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
James Baldwin
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Seed to Harvest
Octavia E. Butler
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler (Author)
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Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan
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Beloved (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison
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Buck
M.K. Asante Jr.
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F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
William J. Maxwell
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S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
Imamu Amiri Baraka
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Toni Morrison Essential Novels Set: Beloved / the Bluest Eye / Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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With My Head Unbowed
Lady Brion
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Octavia's Brood
Walidah Imarisha (Editor), Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor), and Sheree Renée Thomas (Foreword)
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Bloodchild and Other Stories : Second Edition
Octavia E. Butler
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James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Vintage International Original)
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde and Cheryl Clarke (Foreword)
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde
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How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
Tony Keith Jr
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Breaking the Blank
Dwayne Lawson-Brown and Rebecca Bishophall
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Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
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Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W. E. B. Du Bois
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James: A Novel
Percival Everett
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Erasure: A Novel
Percival Everett
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin (Author)
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler (Author)
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Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
Jordan Peele
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