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  • We're On: A June Jordan Reader

    Edited by Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi ...
    "June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on." -Nikky FinneyPoet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential June Jordan

    by June Jordan ...
    "...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

    Poems

    by Jan Heller Levi ...
    Series series Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
    Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I’ve read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversations. Here, then, are her conversations with the world. What sets Levi apart, however, is that she ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

    Poems

    by Jan Heller Levi ...
    Series series Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
    Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I’ve read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversations. Here, then, are her conversations with the world. What sets Levi apart, however, is that she ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

    Edited by Janet Kaufman, Anne Herzog, Jan Heller Levi ...
    Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the darkness ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

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  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anything We Love Can Be Saved

    A Writer's Activism

    by Alice Walker ...
    In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Best American Poetry 2013

    by David Lehman ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise D. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories

    Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

    by Alice Walker ...
    Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and "marvelous writer" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question "one of [our] best American writers" ( The Washington Post). The first African American woman to win a ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Poetry and Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    by Phil Cushway ...
    This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets.Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • This I Believe

    The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

    Edited by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman ...
    Series Book 1 - This I Believe
    The New York Times Bestseller"A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors."—The Philadelphia Inquirera stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs—and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them—reveal the American spirit at its best.Based on the NPR series of the same name, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • When Angels Speak of Love

    by bell hooks ...
    Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies.Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook