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63) The national Black drama anthology: eleven plays from America's leading African-American theaters
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xi, 515 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she's become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, the New York school and reality television. She collapses any foolish distinctions between the personal and the political, the "high" and the "low." Other People's Comfort Keeps...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
94 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 281 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was convicted of being an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. While in the "maximum security" section of Death Row Jarvis has written an astounding memoir that is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer.
In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Jay Masters was implicated as an accessory...