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Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan's poems explore the themes of estrangement, state violence and capitalist exploitation, and take a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic...
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Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America ... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover
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Button Poetry
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Francisco has created his own words for the things we cannot give name to. I'll Fly Away uses Francisco's invented lexicon as the palette to paint an intimate portrait of black life in America- one that praises joy and grace without shying away from the hard truths confronting all of us today.
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares...An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--
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[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are? Do you know you can be ,What you want to be, If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young people to dream big and achieve their goals.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people."--Page 4 of cover.
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