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A Continent for the Taking

A Distant Shore

A Little Piece Of Sky

A Lucky Man

A Place Between Stations

A Tall History of Sugar

A Woman’s Worth

Africaville

All Aunt Hagar’s Children

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

An Unkindness of Ghosts

An Untamed State 

Ancestor Stones

Angels Make Their Hope Here

Another Brooklyn

Another Day in the Death of America

Approaching the Fields

Appropriating Blackness

As a River

Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Bestiary

Black Bottom Saints

Black Moses

Black Sunday

Blackass

Blonde Roots

Bombingham

Book of the Little Axe

Born on a Tuesday

Bouquet of Hungers

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

Brother

Brother, I’m Dying

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Citizen: An American Lyric   

City of Bones: A Testament

Confronting Black Jacobins

Courage to Dissent

Crave Radiance

Creating Their Own Image

Crosslight for Youngbird

Cutting School

Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

Damnificados

Dance of Jakaranda

Dancing in the Dark

Darktown Follies

Delicious Foods

Digest    

DiVida

Dominion

Douglass’ Women

Dreams of Africa in Alabama

Ebony & Ivy

Eloquent Rage

Elsewhere, California

Erasure

Every Boy Should Have a Man

Exiles of Eden

Fantasia for the Man in Blue

Fifth Born

Fire Shut Up In My Bones 

Forest Primeval

Forgotten Readers

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Freedom By Any Means

Freshwater Road

Friday Black

Gabriel’s Story

Gathering of Waters

Getting Mother’s Body

Gingerbread

Glorious

GraceLand

Greenwichtown

Guidebook to Relative Strangers

Half A Yellow Sun

Half-Blood Blues

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Harlem is Nowhere

Heads of the Colored People

Heavy: An American Memoir

Hemming the Water

Holding Pattern

Honest Engine

How to be Drawn

How to Read The Air

Hunting In Harlem

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

In Black and White

In the Language of My Captor

In the Shadow of a Saint

In The Wake: On Blackness and Being

Incendiary Art: Poems

Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid

Infectious Madness

Invisible

It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time

Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems

Kansas City Lightning

King Me    

Knee-Deep in Wonder

Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

Land of Love and Drowning

Leaving Atlanta

Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems: 1966-2009

Library of Small Catastrophes

Losing Our Way  

Loving

Malcolm X at Oxford Union 

Mandela, Mobutu,and Me

May We Forever Stand

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

Men We Reaped

Mend

Mirror to America

& More Black

Mourner’s Bench

Mr. Fox

My Jim

Native Son

Night Angler (American Poets Continuum)

Nine Years Under

Not for Everyday Use   

October Suite

On Her Own Ground

On the Courthouse Lawn

One Day I Will Write About This Place

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People

Ordinary Beast

Our Declaration 

Pale Colors in a Tall Field

Pardon My Heart

Passed On

Patsy

Play Dead

Pride of Carthage

Purple Hibiscus

Radiance of Tomorrow

Rapture

Remembrance

Revising the Storm 

Ring Shout

Root and Branch

Sag Harbor

Say You’re One of Them

Searching for Zion

See Now Then

Seeing the Body

Semiautomatic

She Would Be King

She’s Gone

Silver Sparrow

Silverchest

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope

Someone Knows My Name

Sonata Mulattica

Speaking of Summer

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

Stamped from the Beginning

Sweet Thunder

Swing Time

Syncope

Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Teahouse of the Almighty

Telephone

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

The Beast Side

The Beautiful Struggle

The Big Smoke

The Book of Harlan

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Cineaste: Poems

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

The Cooking Gene

The Coyotes of Carthage

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

The Cutting Season

The Dawn of Detroit

The Dew Breaker

The Ecstatic

The End of Blackness

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon   

The Firebrand and the First Lady

The Fishermen

The Freedom Artist

The Good Lord Bird

The Gospel According to Cane

The Headless Saints

The Heart of Redness

The Herndons

The Indignant Generation

The Last “Darky”

The Light of the World

The Long Mile

The Loss of All Lost Things

The Lost Child

The Lost Child

The Madonna of Excelsior

The March on Washington

The Moor’s Account

The Mother

The new black

The New Negro

The Orchard of Lost Souls

The Polished Hoe

The Price of the Ticket

The Red Moon

The Residue Years

The Revisioners

The Secret History of Las Vegas

The Sellout

The Skin Between Us

The Social Life of DNA

The Star Side of Bird Hill

The Story of the Cannibal Woman

The Talented Ribkins

The Tragedy of Brady SIms

The Turner House

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

The Underground Railroad

The Undiscovered Paul Robeson

The Untelling

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Woman Next Door

The World Doesn’t Require You

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Thelonious Monk

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

These Bodies

Thief in the Interior

Think Black: A Memoir

Third Voice

THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF’LL GET YOU KILLED

Tigerland

Trophic Cascade

Unbowed: A Memoir

Under the Udala Trees

Voyage of the Sable Venus

Warhorses

Warrior Poet

Washington Black

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters   

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

We Need New Names

Welcome to Braggsville

Wench

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

What We Ask of Flesh

What We Lose

Where Everybody Looks Like Me

Where the Line Bleeds

White Blood: Lyric of Virginia

Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?

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