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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. We Are All the Black Boy is a searing work of our time. Full of venom, full of hope, it is an evocative wordscape, tearing down barriers and probing the humanity in each of us. No holds barred poetry. A full appetite of insatiable truth. "We Are All the Black Boy" is a searing work of our time. Full of venom, full of hope, it is an evocative wordscape, tearing down barriers and probing the humanity in each of us. No holds barred poetry. A full appetite of insatiable truth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Falling Wallendas was intended to have a single point of view, that of an older man who resists looking back and tries to look ahead in his life. It resulted from a performance piece of the same name and was chosen for the Tia Chucha list by their editorial board. Many of the poems have been published in anthologies and magazines. Most recently, "The Ice Worm" has been included in The Spoken Word Revolution (Naperville, IL:Sourcebooks mediaFusion, 2003), 143-44. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Jangle is a collection of poems written by National Poetry Slam Champion Lisa Buscani. Jangle is a collection of poems written by National Poetry Slam Champion Lisa Buscani. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 94 pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition , Review Copy. In print for 11.95.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Review slip laid in. Fine.; 8vo.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. Warmly inscribed & signed by Lisa Buscani. Copy is as new. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condizione: with no dust jacket. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Review material laid in. Fine.; 8vo.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Black male/female relationships, and women and their significant place in the life of poet Afaa M. Weaver, make up the terrain of Talisman. The poems in this collection attempt to understand and recover the love that was there and which will always remain in the spiritual sense, long after the doors have slammed shut. Women and their significant place in his life is the terrain covered by Afaa M. Weaver in these moving poems. Black male/female relationships form the larger umbrella of this unique work. Without rancor, Talisman attempts to understand and recover love that once existed, and which will always remain in a spiritual sense, long after the doors have slammed shut on relationships. Born into a Southern family of sharecroppers, Black English was Weaver's first language and is the mode of this work because, as Weaver says, it is his "private language" Part of his poetic gift is his facility with translation and code-switching. With poems lovingly dedicated to Weaver's mother and her ancestral spirit, to the healing of their relationship and those of the other loves in his life, Talisman is a truly memorable work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Poetry. As Yevgeny Yevtushenko recounts, Ricardo Sanchez was one of the creators of la poesia chicana and his voice was the concentrate of many silent voices. His written poetry was ambassador of the non-written sufferings of so many chicanos, whose barefoot feet were in the USA, but whose barefoot soul was endlessly walking sobre la tierra seca mexicana, muriendo de la sed. Poetry. As Yevgeny Yevtushenko recounts, Ricardo Sanchez was one of the creators of la poesia chicana and his voice was the concentrate of many silent voices. His written poetry was ambassador of the non-written sufferings of so many chicanos, whose barefoot feet were in the USA, but whose barefoot soul was endlessly walking sobre la tierra seca mexicana, muriendo de la sed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Signed and dated by the poet, with an inscription to a named individual, at the title page. Clean and bright; the corners of cover and pages are gently fanned and worn at the tips, and the spine is modestly sunned; otherwise well-kept.; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In her debut collection of poems, My Sweet Unconditional, ariel robello meets us at the horizon, where worlds blend in the blush of sunrise and sunset, where land meets sea, air meets earth, and where man and machine interrupt the natural ebb and flow of life. Unapologetically, she declares her faith in a love that defies borders and with each poem she weds herself to a belief that unconditional love can still be found in the cracks of an urban sidewalk, dancing above puffing smoke stacks, behind a guerrilla's mask, in the worn paint brush of an island love, blundering below a street lamp in Ensenada, spelled out in daisies on a veteran's tombstone, in the stitch of a huipil and most importantly - deep inside one's own reflection. With language as radiant and dangerous as broken glass ariel robello cuts away at the political dogma and superficial beauty of a world unhinged to reveal a bloody but dignified glimpse of love in the hands of a New World survivor. 'My Sweet Unconditional' is a collection of poems by Ariel Robello. With her words, she cuts away at the political dogma and superficial beauty of a world unhinged to reveal a bloody but dignified glimpse of love in the hands of a New World survivor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Frozen Accident is a long poem and, echoing Dante, its primary section ""Nezahualcoyotl in Mictlan"" narrates a trip to hell. Yet, Mictlan is not quite the Inferno. For Alfred Arteaga, the place of the dead is California, the last stop for Western culture, the final limit of its reach. The West's poets and philosophers have long declared history over, god dead, and that what remains is merely the house of language. In other words, all is but frozen accident. If the endpoint is California, the poem's point of departure is an assassination that radically shaped history. A young man witnessed his father's murder in a power play that unintentionally enabled the Aztecs to establish an empire. The young man, Nezahualcoyotl, became the philosopher king of Texcoco and wrote the most famous poem of pre-conquest Americas, ""Song of Flight."" What did it mean to be and then to cease to be? Were we all, after all, perhaps but texts of god, existing only in the breath, and red and black inks of divine poetry? A young man witnessed his father's murder in a power play that unintentionally enabled the Aztecs to establish an empire. The young man, Nezahualcoyotl, became the philosopher king of Texcoco and wrote the most famous poem of pre-conquest Americas, ""Song of Flight."" This work is a long poem and, echoing Dante, it also narrates a trip to hell. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What is most compelling about Linda Susan Jackson's debut collection of poems, ""What Yellow Sounds Like"", is the extraordinary self-possession of its young female narrator as she seeks to answer who am I and to whom do I belong? These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from ""a line of technicolor women"" who have ""honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh,"" a girl who comes from ""men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride, worked anywhere"", and could ""soar off the ground."" The terrain of Jackson's poems is particular, perilous, loving, humorous, passionate, uncompromising, contradictory - in other words, vastly human. The language is varied and inflected with the blues, and like the blues, pulls readers in through images and details that are both concrete and symbolic. Poem after poem charts the stages of this young girl's development through her relationships with her family, her history, and the America into which she is born that is defined by race, skin color, gender, and class. The narrator develops a profound and essential connection to the legendary singer, Etta James, the ""canary colored blues woman"" and she recognizes the power in the sound of words as she recollects how Etta James ""churned up her roar/to keep other women from dying."" Near the end of the book, her great-grandmother tells her ""Everything don't need to be told. Some things must."" In this moment, the narrator is empowered to decide what to tell and to tell it in her own voice. These poems celebrate the sheer will and determination of the self to seek out and find who or what it needs to grow and prosper. A collection of poems that seeks to answer 'Who am I and to whom do I belong?' These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from ""a line of technicolor women"" who have ""honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh,"" a girl who comes from ""men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride"". Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Sometimes in our culture it seems that poetry has become tiny. It should be huge. It should be the whale that swallows the world and gives it back to us transformed. Susan Anderson's work shapes passion on the page, utilizing a variety of personas, delving into the past of a person or a place, taking sides, making an argument. She's keenly attuned to the eloquence of the voiceless, portraying the spiritual resourcefulness of the people whose culture she was not only born into, but chose to embrace.The stories of ordinary life are the substance of history; the passage of events is reflected in daily intimacies. Through these intricacies, African Americans have provided their gifts to the world. Susan Anderson's poetry strives to contain some bits of their music and history, justice and love, which is woven into every corner of America, and so the world. Sometimes in our culture it seems that poetry has become tiny. It should be huge. It should be the whale that swallows the world and gives it back to us transformed. This work shapes passion on the page, utilizing a variety of personas, delving into the past of a person or a place, taking sides, making an argument. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States - home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the incarcerated writings of incarcerated men and women. The largest state prison system is in California with some 175,000 people behind bars in close to 35 facilities. Yet the only approved Honor Yard in the Department of Corrections is at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. These are the men that despite often-horrendous crimes - many are lifers, with a few going on three decades - have proven their capacity to dream, to create, to write, to change. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays - and a few drawings - ""Honor Comes Hard"" depicts what can happen to people who are given, as Clarence Darrow expressed many years ago, 'a chance to live'. The work is drawn from writing classes that Lucinda Thomas helped organize in the Honor Yard over several years, and from workshops conducted by Luis J. Rodriguez on most Sundays, for eight hours a day, through eight months in 2007-2008. Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States - home of the modern correctional system. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays - and a few drawings - this title depicts what can happen to people who are given, 'a chance to live'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Simultaneously clear yet mythically transcendent, the poems in ""Heart's Migration"" speak power in a woman's voice. Rodriguez unmasks the human heart in its many beguiling and compelling forms: passion, oppression, and liberation. She evokes and re-imagines classical, biblical, Cherokee, Latino, and other American themes in strikingly personal and sometimes humorous ways as she lovingly renders the heart's eternal encounter with joy and loss. Contains poems that speak power in a woman's voice. This book unmasks the human heart in its many beguiling and compelling forms: passion, oppression, and liberation. It also evokes and re-imagines classical, biblical, Cherokee, Latino, and other American themes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: Near fine. Signature-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 41 pp. Cover art by Gamaliel Ramirez (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Since 1989, Tia Chucha Press has been a leader in publishing artistically innovative and culturally provocative voices in poetry. The roster of poets the Press has brought to publication reflects a deep commitment to diversity and features established artists, such as Elizabeth Alexander, Virgil Suarez, and Diane Glancy, as well as first books by award-winning poets Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan, and Patricia Smith. Tia Chucha Press has had a powerful impact on the literary world as a very important first press for many poets and a respectable, high quality press for all. ""The Tia Chucha Press Anthology"" is more than a book of poetry; it is a fifteen year archive of real American life, a testament of democracy in verse, from the gritty streets of East Los Angeles to lonely Indiana avenues. The work in this anthology explores the tough and the tender, the personal as political, with humor, passion, humanity, and grace. ""The Tia Chucha Press Anthology"" includes study guides and writing exercises suitable for middle school, high school, and college-aged learners. Both thematic and craft issues are highlighted. A fifteen year archive of real American life, a testament of democracy in verse, from the gritty streets of East Los Angeles to lonely Indiana avenues. The work in this anthology explores the tough and the tender, the personal as political, with humor, passion, humanity, and grace. It addresses both thematic and craft issues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. 70p., poetry, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. African American poet from Chicago.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Jose Antonio Rodriguez's poetry is one of memory, both private and public. It is grounded in storytelling and lyricism that reveal a speaker's developing awareness as he traverses borders of nation, language, class, and sexuality. The poems move back and forth between a home left behind on the south side of the Rio Grande and a new home on the north side. Both awe-struck by and apprehensive of the world around him, the speaker searches for a way to claim a new space, a place of belonging. Through these poems, both lyrical and narrative, tender and tense, familiar and estranging, the poet invites us to examine the very concept of home--how we define it, what constitutes it, the ways it can be destabilized and how, in the most trying times, we must learn to sustain the hope of it in our hearts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'When I first started working on ""The Flood"", the title piece from this collection of poems, I thought it was about the World, about Politics, about Race, about all the things that begin with capital letters that make up Life. And in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina came and left such destruction, opening up old social wounds and sins in the process, I thought this was my chance to be big, to be grand, to tackle the important subjects that important artists are seemingly never afraid of. I was going to make my statement. I was going to be heard. I was going to leave my mark'. With this statement, Chiwan Cho begins to describe the impulses behind this most promising and powerful collection of poetry. His voice gives his poems a deep level of intimacy, while his economy of language distinguishes his work as authentic and accessible. This collection is a journey to discover the poet, Chiwan, as a man, as a Korean, as a son, as a husband, as a writer. He embraces the smallest moments in his life - finding key details, examining them, breaking them down and rebuilding them, to see if, somewhere in the smallest fragments, both trivial and tragic, the poet can discover himself, reflected, resonating with his father teaching him how to survive. Chiwan says that in the process of writing the poems in ""The Flood"", he often repeated to myself Ezra Pound's Canto 117, the line 'That I have lost my center/fighting the world'. By the time Chiwan polished each line in each poem, he'd found that center again, even if it was for a fleeting moment. 'Over eight years after I wrote the first words of this poem I thought I'd never finish, I found what I had lost. My core. My heart', Chiwan says. 'It was never about wars and tyrants and poverty nor about any of the Isms that want to suffocate us each and every day. I realized how far off the track I'd gone without realizing it'. Offers a journey to discover the poet, Chiwan, as a man, as a Korean, as a son, as a husband, as a writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good(+). Blue octavo, pink spine, 78 pages; 23 cm. American poetry -- Mexican American authors. Contents: 1. Years like broken glass -- 2. This world elsewhere -- 3. Luminarias -- 4. Pacifica -- 5. Paris -- 6. Night song. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to creased corners, light crease to front cover, extremely light soiling to cover, bright pages in tight binding, else Very Good(+). First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as contrary as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites. Via poetic memoir we join his navigation through the apolitical, rigid morality of the Jehovahs Witnesses; the revolutionary theories and free love of Black Panthers and Marxists; the promise of a bourgeois future from bank executives; a screaming soldier brandishing an AK-47 in his face, a blizzard of white termite wings; an interrogation under Haile Selassies Jubilee Palace; hallucinating of of cornbread islands at Chicagos Velvet Lounge, and many Street Signs, Convolutions, and other California Coincidences as one poem is titled in this second collection. Warrs poetry, like his life, is full of interruptions and circularity that captures the broad sweep of the times and microscopic idiosyncrasies of the moment. Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as "contrary" as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez's first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez has sincepublished more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, chapbooks, and a CD. Tia Chucha Press is now a project of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, which Rodriguez helped create in 2001 with his wife Trini.We are honored to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavementclose to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career. Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez's first book, Poems Across the Pavement. We are honored to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavement - close to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bless the Ashes is an urban hymn to elemental influences: Peter Harris's mother and the reverberations of the ethical gifts she gave him during her fifty-seven years on earth; the integrity at the core of cultures crafted under duress by people of African descent; the nourishment of waters, actual and symbolic; powerful music (from the One and 4/4 to symphonic and atonal); as well as the exhilaration of tapping the flow of creativity. These poems are about an adult search for deep humanity and the best of community. This book crystallizes Harris's most expansive quest for a creative voice of individuality and inspiration. With Bless the Ashes, he uses words to blend the imaginative, emotional, and intellectual to get beyond words and into a visceral field that should move anyone participating fully into their human journey. This is an urban hymn to elemental influences These poems are about an adult search for deep humanity and the best of community. This book crystallizes Peter Harris's most expansive quest for a creative voice of individuality and inspiration. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bum Town is Tony Fitzpatrick's allegorical tale of a journey through Chicago with the ghost of his father--revisiting the places that have changed, remembering the uncle who died as a boy trying to hop a freight during the Great Depressions, praising and dispraising a city of dreams and despair. This work is the author's allegorical search for his father's ghost. It is the lyrical story of the burial of a salesman, of the man's juvenile delinquent son, and of driving round the city when the son was excused from school. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: NEW. 67pp. 19x23cm. Blue cover with photograph. Wrappers a bit rubbed. SIGNED by author on title page.

Paperback. Condizione: NEW. SIGNED. 67pp. 19x23cm. Blue cover with photograph. Inscribed by author on title page (not inscribed to a specific recipient): "Done With Words! Jean Howard 12-2025.".

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tia Chucha Press is proud to present an anthology of Central American writers living in the United States. It features work that captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latino groups, but also offers its own unique narrative. This is the first-ever comprehensive literary survey of the Central American diaspora by a U.S. publisher, perfect for high school, college, or university courses in U.S. literature, Latino literature, multicultural studies, and migration studies.A multi-genre collection - including poems, short stories, essays, memoir or novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction - the book showcases writers who render a multiplicity of experiences, as refugees from the wars of the 1980s to those who barely remember the homeland or who were born in el norte. There are writers from both coasts and from the middle. Their aesthetics range from hip-hop inflected to high literary to acrobatics in Spanglish. Yet it is a community that shares a history of violence - both here and back home - and the hope and healing that ensures its survival. They include migrants or children of migrants from countries in the so-called Northern Triangle - El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras - considered one of the most violent places on earth, as well as from Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Presents an anthology of Central American writers living in the United States. This volume features work that captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latino groups, but also offers its own unique narrative. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…