Used book in Good Condition. Winner of the anisfield-wolf award and finalist for the pulitzer prize in poetry, the hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the National Book Award in Poetry--a collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson The legendary Jack Johnson 1878-1946 was a true American creation.

The big smoke, adrian matejka's third work of poetry, follows the fighter's journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers--and white America--to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion.

. Matejka's book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson's complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.

Map to the Stars Penguin Poets

Penguin. In matejka's poems, the dream of being one of the first black astronauts, hope is the link between the convoluted realities of being poor and the inspiring possibilities of transcendence and escape—whether it comes from Star Trek, or Sun Ra's cosmic jazz. In the time of space shuttles and the strategic Defense Initiative, outer space is the only place equality seems possible, even as the stars serve to both guide and obscure the earthly complexities of masculinity and migration.

A resonant new collection of poetry from adrian matejka, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Map to the Stars, navigates the tensions between race, author of The Big Smoke, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era.

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion. The new yorker"a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.

Buzzfeed books"An important new voice in American poetry. Beloit poetry journal"What a treasure Ocean Vuong is to us. Night sky with Exit Wounds. What a gift this book is. Li-young lee"vuong takes from Pound the ability to eternalize a moment. Poetry "even as vuong leads you through every pleasure a body deserves and all the ensuing grief, singing along to the radio, these poems restore you with hope, that godforsaken thing--alive, suddenly sufficient.

Traci brimhall "what this poet sees on the street, or even while studying an apple reminds me of those dreams we have in common: dreams in which we are falling but never touch the ground, in a blizzard, dreams in which we are naked in the presence of men suited for our ruin. Jericho Brown Penguin. Vuong's poems show, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, through breath, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.

Praise for ocean vuong:"reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.

Unaccompanied

He knew we would try again. And again―like everyone does. Javier zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Penguin. Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans. Jamaal may"zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life.

Glappitnovajavier zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4, across multiple borders, 000 miles, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind.

Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, and a combination of Spanish and English, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun. From "let me try again":He knew we weren't Mexican.

He must've remembered his familycoming over the border, because he drove usto the border and told us next time, bring more tortillas, restat least five days, or the bordercoming over them, sardines, don't trust anyone callingthemselves coyotes, Alhambra. He earned a ba at uc-berkeley, an mfa at new york university, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Penguin Books. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience. The new york times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, Massachusetts.

Mary oliver's latest book, upstream, will be published in October 2016 by Penguin Press Penguin.

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Penguin Poets

Penguin Books. Penguin. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Finalist for the 2018 national book award in poetry one of the new york times critics' top Books of 2018A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead"Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America.

The new york timesin seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.

Bright Dead Things: Poems

Penguin. Milkweed Editions. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Penguin Books. I am full of love. I am beautiful. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment.

I am dying, ” the poet writes. Bright dead things examines the chaos that is life, and marvelous, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and ours. A book of bravado and introspection, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contacttracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, and falls in love.

Building on the legacies of forebears such as frank o’Hara, Sharon Olds, felt, Limón’s work is consistently generous and accessiblethough every observed moment feels complexly thought, and Mark Doty, and lived.

Native Guard: Poems

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Penguin Books. Penguin. Night sky with Exit Wounds.

Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history. Milkweed Editions. Mariner Books.

Take Me Out: A Play

Take Me Out. Mariner Books. But darren's announcement brings to the fore the confused and twisted hostilities of the Empires' brilliantly talented but deeply racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt―from whose rage tragic consequences ensue. The american premiere of take me out took place at the Public Theater in New York City in September 2002.

An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off. Penguin Books. Take me out is a dynamic, involving play. Donald lyons, new york postDarren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. It later moved to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in February 2003.

Milkweed Editions. Penguin. Night sky with Exit Wounds. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he's gay, while he also emboldens his closeted accountant, Mason Marzac, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, to come to terms with his own sexuality―and to fully experience the pure joy of watching great athletes play a sport as well as it can be played.

A funny and troubling look at athletes and identity.

What the Living Do: Poems

A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel. Liz rosenberg boston globe informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive.

Penguin. It is a genuinely feminine form. Penguin Books. Take Me Out. What the living do reflects "a new form of confessional poetry, one shared to some degree by other women poets such as Sharon Olds and Jane Kenyon. Milkweed Editions. A poetry of intimacy, witness, honesty, and relation" Boston Globe. Night sky with Exit Wounds.

Mariner Books. Unlike the earlier confessional poetry of Plath, Lowell, Sexton et al. Howe's writing is not so much a moan or a shriek as a song.

Mixology National Poetry Series

Mariner Books. Penguin Books. Selected for the 2008 national poetry series by kevin youngfinalist for the 2010 naacp image Award for Outstanding Literature -- Poetry The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, skin politics, appropriation, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, and cultural identity.

Penguin. Milkweed Editions. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-are parts of the whole.

Take Me Out.