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Fine Books / Poetry Books / African American:
Welcome to the African American Poetry Books section of
Fine Books. Here are excellent poetry books filled with beautiful poems by great
African American poets, such as Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni.
Other American Poetry Books:
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- 1. The
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou ~ Usually
ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / September 1994
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- 2. God's
Trombones : Seven Negro Sermons in Verse ~ Usually
ships in 24 hours
- James Weldon Johnson, et al / Penguin USA (Paper) / February 1990
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- 3. For
Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf : A Choreopoem
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Ntozake Shange / Scribner / September 1997
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- 4. Sister
Outsider : Essays and Speeches ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Audre Lorde / Crossing Pr / April 1984
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- 5. Omeros
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Derek Walcott / Noonday Pr / June 1992
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- 6. In
Daddy's Arms I Am Tall : African Americans Celebrating Fathers ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Javaka Steptoe(Illustrator) / Lee & Low Books / November 1997
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- 7. Love
in Vain : A Vision of Robert Johnson ~ Usually ships
in 24 hours
- Alan Greenberg, Martin Scorsese (Designer) / Da Capo Pr / April 1994
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- 8. African-American
Poetry : An Anthology : 1773-1927 (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Joan R. Sherman(Editor) / Dover Pubns / August 1997
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- 9. Haiku
: This Other World ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Richard Wright, et al / Arcade Pub / September 1998
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- 10. The
Palm of My Heart : Poetry by African American Children ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Davida Adedjouma(Editor), et al / Lee & Low Books / September 1996
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- 11. Honey,
I Love and Other Love Poems (Reading Rainbow Series) ~ Usually
ships in 24 hours
- Eloise Greenfield, et al / HarperTrophy / May 1986
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- 12. The
Prisoner's Wife : A Memoir ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Asha Bandele / Scribner / May 1999
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- 13. The
Dream Keeper and Other Poems ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Langston Hughes, et al / Knopf / December 1996
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- 14. On
the Bus With Rosa Parks : Poems ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Rita Dove / W.W. Norton & Company / April 1999
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- 15. The
Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Fowler (Illustrator) / William Morrow & Company / January
1996
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- 16. She
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Saul Williams / Washington Square Pr / June 1999
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- 17. Even
the Stars Look Lonesome [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships
in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / September 1997
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- 18. Ashley
Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry : A Jean Karl Book ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Ashley Bryan(Editor) / Atheneum / August 1997
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- 19. Good
Woman : Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum Series ; Vol. 14)
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Lucille Clifton / Boa Editions / December 1989
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- 20. The
Heart of a Woman ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / June 1997
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- 21. Blues
: For All the Changes : New Poems ~ Usually ships in
24 hours
- Nikki Giovanni / William Morrow & Company / May 1999
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- 22. The
Crisis Reader : Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine (Harlem
Renaissance Series) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Sondra K. Wilson(Editor) / Modern Library / February 1999
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- 23. Shake
Loose My Skin : New and Selected Poems ~ Usually ships
in 24 hours
- Sonia Sanchez / Beacon Pr / January 1999
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- 24. Selected
Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) ~ Usually
ships in 2-3 days
- Langston Hughes / Vintage Books / September 1990
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- 25. Wouldn't
Take Nothing for My Journey Now ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / September 1993
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- 26. The
Great Migration : An American Story ~ Usually ships in
24 hours
- Jacob Lawrence / HarperTrophy / October 1995
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- 27. All
God's Children Need Traveling Shoes ~ Usually ships in
24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / May 1997
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- 28. Thomas
and Beulah ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Rita Dove / Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pr / September 1987
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- 29. Dien
Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Yusef Komunyakaa / Wesleyan Univ Pr / November 1988
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- 30. Gather
Together in My Name ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House / May 1974
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- 31. Vice:
New and Selected Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Ai / W.W. Norton & Company / March 1, 1999
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- 32. Jazz
Poetry Anthology ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Sascha Feinstein(Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) / Indiana Univ Pr / June 1991
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- 33. Quilting
: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21.) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Lucille Clifton / Boa Editions / July 1991
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- 34. The
Dream Keeper and Other Poems ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Langston Hughes, et al / Knopf / February 1994
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- 35. Joker,
Joker, Deuce (Penguin Poets) ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Paul Beatty / Penguin USA (Paper) / March 1994
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- 36. I Am
the Darker Brother : An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Arnold Adoff(Editor), et al / Aladdin Paperbacks / January 1997
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- 37. American
Dreams ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Sapphire / Vintage Books / June 1996
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- 38. Racism
101 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Nikki Giovanni, Virginia C. Fowler / Quill / May 1995
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- 39. I,
Too, Sing America : Three Centuries of African American Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Catherine Clinton(Editor), Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator) / Clarion Books / October 1998
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- 40. The
Stonemason : A Play in Five Acts ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Cormac McCarthy / Ecco Press / April 1994
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- 41. Does
Your House Have Lions ? ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Sonia Sanchez / Beacon Pr / February 1998
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- 42. Transbluesency
: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1961-1995) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Imamu Amiri Baraka, et al / Marsilio Pub / October 1995
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- 43. Ego-Tripping
and Other Poems for Young People ~ Usually ships in
2-3 days
- Nikki Giovanni, George Ford (Illustrator) / Lawrence Hill & Co / November 1993
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- 44. Negro
: An Anthology [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Nancy Cunard(Editor), Hugh Ford (Editor) / Continuum Pub Group / October 1996
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- 45. The
Brass Bed and Other Stories ~ Usually ships in 24
hours
- Pearl Cleage / Third World Pr / December 1991
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- 46. Dream
on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays ~ Usually ships in
24 hours
- Derek Walcott / Noonday Pr / December 1971
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- 47. African
Love Poems and Proverbs ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Charlotte Leslau(Editor), Wolf Leslau / Peter Pauper Pr / October 1995
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- 48. On
the Pulse of Morning ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Random House (Paper) / February 1993
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- 49. Maya
Angelou : Poems : Just Give a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna
Fit Me Well/and Still I Rise/Shaker, Why Don't You sin [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Bantam Books / February 1, 1986
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- 50. Shimmy
Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate : Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Nikki Giovanni(Editor) / Henry Holt & Company, Inc. / April 1996
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- 51. The
Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown ~ Usually ships
in 24 hours
- Sterling A. Brown, Michael S. Harper (Editor) / Triquarterly Books / March 1996
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- 52. Close
to Death ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Patricia Smith / Zoland Books / October 1993
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- 53. The
Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar ~ Usually
ships in 24 hours
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (Editor) / University Press of Virginia / July
1993
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- 54. On a
Mission : The Last Poets : Selected Poems and a Hostory of the Last Poets ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Abiodun Oyewole, et al / Owlet / October 1996
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- 55. Black
Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement ~ Usually ships
in 2-3 days
- Nikki Giovanni / William Morrow & Co Paper / July 1989
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- 56. Black
Poets ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Dudley Randall(Editor) / Bantam Books / May 1, 1985
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- 57. The
Second Set : The Jazz Poetry Anthology (The Jazz Poetry Anthology , Vol 2) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Sascha Feinstein(Editor), Yusef Komunyakaa (Editor) / Indiana Univ Pr / October 1996
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- 58. Selected
Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Gwendolyn Brooks / HarperCollins (paper) / March 1999
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- 59. Magic
City (Wesleyan Poetry) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Yusef Komunyakaa / Wesleyan Univ Pr / September 1992
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- 60. Singin'
and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas ~ Usually
ships in 2-3 days
- Maya Angelou / Random House / May 1997
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- 61. Horses
Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful ~ Usually ships
in 2-3 days
- Alice Walker / Harcourt Brace / April 1986
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- 62. Blacks
~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Gwendolyn Brooks / Third World Pr / October 1991
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- 63. I
Shall Not Be Moved ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Maya Angelou / Bantam Books / November 1991
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- 64. The
Life : The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler ~ Usually
ships in 2-3 days
- Dennis Wepman, et al / Holloway House Pub Co / February 1986
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- 65. Les
Blancs : The Collected Last Plays : The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Editor) / Vintage Books / December 1994
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- 66. Meet
Danitra Brown ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Nikki Grimes, et al / Mulberry Books / September 1997
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- 67. Spin
a Soft Black Song ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Nikki Giovanni, George Martins (Illustrator) / Hill & Wang Pub / April 1987
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- 68. Catch
the Fire!!! : A Cross-Generation Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry
~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Derrick I. M. Gilbert(Editor), Tony Medina / Riverhead Books / February 1998
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- 69. Singing
Black : Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children ~ Usually
ships in 2-3 days
- Mari Evans, Ramon Price (Illustrator) / Just Us Books / May 1998
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- 70. Jaha
and Jamil Went Down the Hill : An African Mother Goose ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days
- Katherine Roundtree(Illustrator), Virginia L. Kroll / Charlesbridge Publishing /
February 1995
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- 71. Angel
to Angel : A Mother's Gift of Love ~ Usually ships in
2-3 days
- Walter Dean Myers / Harpercollins Juvenile Books / April 1998
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- 72. Travelling
Music ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Colleen J. McElroy / Story Line Press / December 1998
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- 73. Whispers,
Secrets and Promises ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- E. Ethelbert Miller / Black Classic Pr / June 1998
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- 74. The
Arkansas Testament ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Derek Walcott / Noonday Pr / February 1989
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- 75. Good
Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning : Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Alice Walker / Harcourt Brace / November 1984
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