Category: Poetry

  • The Undertaker’s Daughter University of Pittsburgh Press October 2011 104 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822962007 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania View the Table of Contents here. Read a selection from the book here.

  • Captivity University of Pittsburgh Press November 1989 88 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN: 9780822954224 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces…

  • In this landmark collection, 42 writers — including Diane Glancy, Siv Cedering, and Lewis Turco — go beyond a simple idea of diversity to explore what it means to “walk in two worlds.”

  • From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience Ian Randle Publishers 2000-09-05 216 pages 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-9768123879 Easton Lee Photographs by Owen Minott Easton Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-a-bit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The…

  • Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems Graywolf Press 2010-08-31 192 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7 Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-Founder The Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers…

  • Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Graywolf Press 2009-02-06 28 pages Trim Size: 4 5/8 x 6 1/2 ISBN: 978-1-55597-545-6 Elizabeth Alexander Available in an elegant chapbook, Elizabeth Alexander’s historic poem, read at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the…

  • Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…

  • Ormonde is a chapbook by the award-winning writer Hannah Lowe, which brings together a cycle of poems and unique personal and historical archives to chart the 1947 journey of SS Ormonde, the first post-WW2 ship (more than a year before SS Empire Windrush) to carry immigrants from Jamaica to the UK.

  • Gardening in the Tropics Insomniac Press 2005 (originally published in 1994) 144 pages 5″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN: 1-897178-00-X Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior’s rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism.…

  • White Papers University of Pittsburgh Press January 2012 80 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780822961840 Martha Collins Winner of the 2013 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry White Papers is a series of untitled poems that explore race from a variety of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, questioning what it means to be “white” in…