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The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 18,249 ratings — published 1994
The Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,338 ratings — published 2019
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,662 ratings — published 1978
Finna (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,427 ratings — published 2020
Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,422 ratings — published 1959
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 1991
Call Us What We Carry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,562 ratings — published 2021
Love Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,929 ratings — published 1997
Black Girl, Call Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 6,504 ratings — published 2021
Counting Descent (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.51 — 4,352 ratings — published 2016
Magical Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,781 ratings — published 2019
Maud Martha (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,964 ratings — published 1953
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,239 ratings — published 1999
Selected Poems of Rita Dove (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 889 ratings — published 1993
The Complete Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.44 — 14,075 ratings — published 1994
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,702 ratings — published 2003
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 813 ratings — published 2017
Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,883 ratings — published 1963
Ain't Never Not Been Black (Button Poetry)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 325 ratings — published 2020
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,476 ratings — published 2011
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 224 ratings — published 2015
She (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,001 ratings — published 1999
Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,226 ratings — published 2011
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,131 ratings — published 2014
Cruelty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 126 ratings — published 1973
Bluff: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,180 ratings — published 2024
Blacks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.48 — 385 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.35 — 267 ratings — published 1913
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,640 ratings — published 2022
Hemming the Water (Stahlecker Selections)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 117 ratings — published 2013
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.65 — 240 ratings — published 2020
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 614 ratings — published 2015
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 93,474 ratings — published 2014
the black maria (American Poets Continuum)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.37 — 681 ratings — published 2016
Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 152 ratings — published 2005
Homie (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 7,966 ratings — published 2020
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,773 ratings — published 2018
1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,722 ratings — published 2019
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 440 ratings — published 2018
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,739 ratings — published 2017
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,849 ratings — published 1997
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,178 ratings — published 2010
A Wreath for Emmett Till (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,494 ratings — published 2005
My Seneca Village (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 281 ratings — published 2015
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.27 — 428 ratings — published 1984
Who Look at Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.52 — 64 ratings — published 1969
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.27 — 353 ratings — published 1991
Don't Cry, Scream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 28 ratings — published
Please (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 4.38 — 770 ratings — published 2008
Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-poetry)
avg rating 3.95 — 102 ratings — published 2010
“Neuronigger (Sonnet 2316)
Call me pilgrim or call me beggar,
you be my Shams, I, your Mevlana.
Call me neuro or call me nigger,
to some I'm Valium, to others Viagra.
Without salt from the South of Earth,
world philosophy, world science,
world poetry, all collapse into dust.
Wipe the south from history,
you wipe out culture and civilization,
wipe the north, you spare the planet
the most uncivilized of criminals.
Yet, holocaust for holocaust
leaves humanity in plaster cast;
human defends human,
dreams this Neuronigger.”
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
Call me pilgrim or call me beggar,
you be my Shams, I, your Mevlana.
Call me neuro or call me nigger,
to some I'm Valium, to others Viagra.
Without salt from the South of Earth,
world philosophy, world science,
world poetry, all collapse into dust.
Wipe the south from history,
you wipe out culture and civilization,
wipe the north, you spare the planet
the most uncivilized of criminals.
Yet, holocaust for holocaust
leaves humanity in plaster cast;
human defends human,
dreams this Neuronigger.”
― Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“La locura de mi alma
no puede reclinarse,
vive en lo inquieto,
en lo desordenado,
en el desequilibrio
de las cosas dinámicas,
en el silencio
del libre pensador, que vive solo,
en callado destierro.
The madness of my soul
cannot repose,
it lives in the restlessness
in the disorder
in the imbalance
of things dynamic,
in the silence
of the free thinker, who lives alone,
in quiet exile.
(From Mi Alma / My Soul)”
―
no puede reclinarse,
vive en lo inquieto,
en lo desordenado,
en el desequilibrio
de las cosas dinámicas,
en el silencio
del libre pensador, que vive solo,
en callado destierro.
The madness of my soul
cannot repose,
it lives in the restlessness
in the disorder
in the imbalance
of things dynamic,
in the silence
of the free thinker, who lives alone,
in quiet exile.
(From Mi Alma / My Soul)”
―
