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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking…
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A deft, lyrical meditation on blues, womanhood, and beyond
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In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities.
The title poem of this collection tells of the creation of barbecue, how slaves cooked their masters’ scraps into a survival food that became a cuisine. Powerful and moving, these…
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In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley Peters published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities.
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Deeply moving’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ‘Remarkable’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) ‘A sweeping epic … Outstanding’ Daily Mail
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Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
A book of poems which expresses the poet’s familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. It approaches the southern landscape as…
Tanella Boni
Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems…
