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Maybe Life Is A Test

An Autobiographical 21 Years in Verse

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At first an innocent child, LEON “SONNY” SNAPS doesn’t know how to cope when he awakes in the hospital dilapidated after a terrible accident leaves him on death’s door. When everything hurts and everyone expects you to die the hardest thing in the world is to continue to fight on. Yet fight on is exactly what Leon decided to do. The only problem was that this was a fight no one expected the ... Read more

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At first an innocent child, LEON “SONNY” SNAPS doesn’t know how to cope when he awakes in the hospital dilapidated after a terrible accident leaves him on death’s door. When everything hurts and everyone expects you to die the hardest thing in the world is to continue to fight on. Yet fight on is exactly what Leon decided to do. The only problem was that this was a fight no one expected the
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

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Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater connection with the soul of the reader. Each piece has been re-seen and revamped to reflect the author's continuing journey with his partner, Samantha King, without whom this book would not exist. Samantha is the muse, the "she" the writer speaks of; she is every woman who has felt ... Read more

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Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater connection with the soul of the reader. Each piece has been re-seen and revamped to reflect the author's continuing journey with his partner, Samantha King, without whom this book would not exist. Samantha is the muse, the "she" the writer speaks of; she is every woman who has felt
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I Still Want It

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In "I Still Want It", Derrick Jaxn delivers a life-changing collection of poems immersed in raw, passionate, but brave vulnerability.Dark truths of his lustful past, revelations during his ongoing battle with heartbreak, and empowering words of wisdom leave readers with a renewed faith in a love they may have lost hope in finding. His signature way with words seasons all 178 pages of "I Still Want ... Read more

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In "I Still Want It", Derrick Jaxn delivers a life-changing collection of poems immersed in raw, passionate, but brave vulnerability.Dark truths of his lustful past, revelations during his ongoing battle with heartbreak, and empowering words of wisdom leave readers with a renewed faith in a love they may have lost hope in finding. His signature way with words seasons all 178 pages of "I Still Want
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Kingdom Animalia

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The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time ... Read more

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The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time
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Collected Shorter Poems

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This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth’s shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books.This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth’s shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven ... Read more

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This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth’s shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books.This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth’s shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven
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This Fire Inside

Poems on Love and Life

by Surayah White ...

A collection of observations, unexpected encounters and too often unspoken, yet universal experiences written in poetic verse. This work is separated into two sections: the first - On Love - speaks to everyday occurrences: introductions, hurts, exchanges and unplanned rendezvous. The second - On Life - speaks to pain, passion, pursuits and most importantly purpose (the fire inside).This is one ... Read more

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A collection of observations, unexpected encounters and too often unspoken, yet universal experiences written in poetic verse. This work is separated into two sections: the first - On Love - speaks to everyday occurrences: introductions, hurts, exchanges and unplanned rendezvous. The second - On Life - speaks to pain, passion, pursuits and most importantly purpose (the fire inside).This is one
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Black Boy Poems

by Tyson Amir ...

In the pages of Black Boy Poems, you will experience the fight, struggle, love, anger, frustration, critical analysis, and hope for a better future which is all present in the heart, mind, and soul of its author, Tyson Amir. Black Boy Poems was birthed in the throes of the violent racism and systemic devaluation of black people which has become a cornerstone of American culture. A pain that ugly ... Read more

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In the pages of Black Boy Poems, you will experience the fight, struggle, love, anger, frustration, critical analysis, and hope for a better future which is all present in the heart, mind, and soul of its author, Tyson Amir. Black Boy Poems was birthed in the throes of the violent racism and systemic devaluation of black people which has become a cornerstone of American culture. A pain that ugly
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

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National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.In her newest collection, National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. From her parents’ move from the South to Chicago to being raised as an “up North” child under the spell of Motown music, she captures the rampant romanticism of ... Read more

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National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.In her newest collection, National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. From her parents’ move from the South to Chicago to being raised as an “up North” child under the spell of Motown music, she captures the rampant romanticism of
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Weary Kingdom

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by DéLana Dameron-John ...

Series series Palmetto Poetry Series
A Southern-born poet's journey of reflection and pilgrimage to the streets of HarlemIn this new collection of poems, Weary Kingdom, DéLana R. A. Dameron maps a journey across emotional, spiritual, and geographic lines, from the familiarity of the honeysuckle South to a new world, or a new kingdom—Harlem. Her poems traverse the streets of this Black mecca with a careful eye cast toward the ... Read more

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A Southern-born poet's journey of reflection and pilgrimage to the streets of HarlemIn this new collection of poems, Weary Kingdom, DéLana R. A. Dameron maps a journey across emotional, spiritual, and geographic lines, from the familiarity of the honeysuckle South to a new world, or a new kingdom—Harlem. Her poems traverse the streets of this Black mecca with a careful eye cast toward the
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Primitive

The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

by Janice N. Harrington ...

A biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin-the best-known African-American artist of his time-Primitive is a critique on current perceptions surrounding African-American folk art, as well as the absence of key African-American history in present-day curricula. Award-winning poet Janice Harrington connects readers with a fascinating, odds-defying artist, all while ... Read more

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A biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin-the best-known African-American artist of his time-Primitive is a critique on current perceptions surrounding African-American folk art, as well as the absence of key African-American history in present-day curricula. Award-winning poet Janice Harrington connects readers with a fascinating, odds-defying artist, all while
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Wild Beauty

New and Selected Poems

by Ntozake Shange ...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFrom the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.In this stirring ... Read more

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NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFrom the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.In this stirring
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Black Movie

by Danez\ Smith ...

2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, ... Read more

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2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long,
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