Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow explores the Black American experience through the lens of basebal legend Josh Gibson's life and seventeen-year baseball career while addressing social change, culture, family, race, death, and oppression-while honoring and giving voice to Gibson and a voiceless generation of African Americans.
Poetry
Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia.
Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother's journey toward a heroic self-discipline.
A collection of poems written by a teacher who served in public schools for twenty-five years, Mama Tried (Broadstone Books) takes the reader on a journey through her experiences as an educator and as a mother.
Lost In America chronicles the pain and joy of navigating life in America as the daughter of an immigrant Chinese father and German mother.
In this stirring new collection of historical poetry, Load In Nine Times, he braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops--including his own ancestors--with family members, as well as slaveowners and prominent historical figures--including Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Margaret Garner--into a wide-ranging series of persona poems imbued with atmospheric imagery and brimming with […]
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is a landmark Latinx poetry collection including more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presenting poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.
By conveying the despair—and serenity—found in the loneliness of the woods and tackling the frank reality of self-acceptance in the face of ugly truths, Kingfisher Blues offers a visceral encounter with the intertwined forces of nature, human struggle, and redemption.
In Hush Candy, her accomplished and sure debut collection, she revisits the venerable genre of domestic advice manuals, those 19th and 20th century compendia of wisdom designed to guide women (especially aspiring women of the rising middle class) in the exercise of their proper roles in the home and society.
Heartbreak Tree is a poetic exploration of the intersection of gender and place in Appalachia. “There is a road, but the road is still inside you,” the mature Hansel tells the girl she was, encouraging her: “You are trying. Remember.”
Dancing on the Page, a memoir in verse, is an homage to the soundtrack of the process of a poet becoming herself.
When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form […]