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If you loved Roll Deep Poems by Major Jackson, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in African American & Black, American, and Poetry.

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Crave Radiance New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 — Elizabeth Alexander

Crave Radiance New and Selected Poems 1990-2010

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The Rat King A Book of Dark Poetry — Sumiko Saulson

The Rat King A Book of Dark Poetry

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Golden Ax — Rio Cortez

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Electric Arches — Eve L. Ewing

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I Hope She Finds This — R. H. Sin

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Shadowed Dreams Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance — Maureen Honey

Shadowed Dreams Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Scorched Earth Poems — Tiana Clark

Scorched Earth Poems

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

She Watches Me Through My Words — DARRYL E. MOSS

She Watches Me Through My Words

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Rest in the Mourning — R. H. Sin

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Time Come Selected Prose — Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Chasing Utopia A Hybrid — Nikki Giovanni

Chasing Utopia A Hybrid

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Unfold Poetry + Prose — Ari B. Cofer

Unfold Poetry + Prose

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Dear Africa An Intimate Collection of God’s Written Affection — Antoinette Brazelton

Dear Africa An Intimate Collection of God’s Written Affection

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Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

The Monster I Am Today Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse — Kevin Simmonds

The Monster I Am Today Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

The Hill We Climb An Inaugural Poem for the Country — Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Olio O — Tyehimba Jess

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Watch Your Language Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry — Terrance Hayes

Watch Your Language Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland — DaMaris B. Hill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

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Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

A Treasure Chest of Verse from the Cutting Edge — Ralph Reynaud

A Treasure Chest of Verse from the Cutting Edge

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Somebody Else Sold the World — Adrian Matejka

Somebody Else Sold the World

Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

God’s Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse — James Weldon Johnson

God’s Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

James Weldon Johnson

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The Maiden Voice A Collection of Poems — Friday Hamamba Hanene

The Maiden Voice A Collection of Poems

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Themes: African American & Black • American • Poetry

Fans of Roll Deep Poems by Major Jackson will find 24 titles here, all united by African American & Black, American, Poetry. Authors represented include Brittany Rogers, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Elizabeth Alexander, Sumiko Saulson, and others.

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