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"This stunning new hardcover book celebrates the journey of Rupi Kaur and milk and honey. 40 new original poems and 20 new illustrations. Full-color, never-before-seen photos and memorabilia. Illuminating introduction and handwritten diary entries by Rupi. Heartfelt annotations from Rupi and some of today's most respected voices. Since its debut, milk and honey has sold more than 6 million copies globally, becoming the highest-selling book of poetry...
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Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back. --from Amazon.
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Four Way Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing ourselves out we are, in fact, trying to survive?"--
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The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara M. Stringfellow embraces complexity, grappling with the sometimes painful, sometimes wonderful way two conflicting things can be true at the same time. How it's possible to have a strong voice and also feel silenced. To be loyal to things and people that betray us. To burn as hot with rage as we do with love. Each...
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Women are some kind of magic volume 3
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths are tales of escapism and healing, which Lovelace weaves throughout this empowering collection of poetry, taking you on a journey from the sea to the stars. They tried to silence her once and for all, but the mermaid's voice returns in this one. --from Amazon.
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Write Bloody Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet's father. Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the poet grapples to find, and listen, to both. With a distinct and feminist voice, this collection delves into a life now lived without a beloved parent, while trying to survive a pandemic and battling demons...
7) 1919
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event-which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries-through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses...
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