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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a... (more)

Cane (Norton Critical Edition)

by Jean Toomer

"<Cane> has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it." —Alice Walker A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and... (more)

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition

by Nellie Y. McKay

Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," (Russ Castronovo, University of Miami) The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights: Nine new writers The Second Edition includes nine new writers spanning three centuries: Jupiter Hammon, Venture Smith,... (more)

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk , by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and... (more)

Decreation (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Anne Carson

Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and... (more)

U.S.!: A Novel

by Chris Bachelder

In this hilarious and wildly inventive novel, Chris Bachelder brings Upton Sinclair back from the dead to see what he might make of our modern world. U.S. ! is a playful, darkly comic novel that imagines the serial resurrection and assassination of tireless muckraker Upton Sinclair. In Chris Bachelder’s bizarre world, Sinclair is repeatedly brought back by beleaguered but optimistic leftists (whose refrain is... (more)

Men in the Off Hours

by Anne Carson

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus,... (more)

Erotique Noire: Black Erotica: A Celebration of Black Sensuality

Erotique Noire: Black Erotica: A Celebration of Black Sensuality

by Reginald Martin

A glorious, groundbreaking celebration of Black sensuality--short stories, poems, essays, folk tales, and letters--ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, from the prurient to the provocative. It is, as well, a serious and intellectually grounded anthology of black literature, including such authors as Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Barbara Chase-Riboud, among many others. (Anchor)

On Poetry and Craft

by Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outpoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools. Culled from volumes long out of print, On Poetry and Craft will be prized in the classroom-and outrageous... (more)

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

An anthology of writings by black and lesbian activists. First published in 1983, this edition benefits from an updated list of contributor biographies, and a new preface that provides an assessment of how black women's lives have changed - or not - since the book was first published.

Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian WritingGeorge Elliott Clarke

Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing

by George Elliott Clarke

This is a unique collection of the powerful and enchanting world of the Black community of writing. Readers will be astounded at the breadth and scope of the selections.

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology

by Dohra Ahmad

A global anthology of fiction and poetry in vernacular English. Rotten English spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. During the last twelve years, half of the Man Booker awards went to novels written in non-standard English. What would once have been derogatorily termed "dialect literature" has come... (more)

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave - Black Women's Studies

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Autobiography of Red

by Anne Carson

Cane (Norton Critical Edition)

by Jean Toomer

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition

by Nellie Y. McKay

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

Decreation (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Anne Carson

U.S.!: A Novel

by Chris Bachelder

Men in the Off Hours

by Anne Carson

Erotique Noire: Black Erotica: A Celebration of Black Sensuality

by Reginald Martin

On Poetry and Craft

by Theodore Roethke

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing

by George Elliott Clarke

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology

by Dohra Ahmad

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave - Black Women's Studies