This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this ex

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black d

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Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.