DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.
Author: Noor Hindi
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642597236
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What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? Noor Hindi’s poems explore colonialism, religion, patriarchy and everything in between with sharp wit and innovative precision. Layered to reflect the intersections of her identity, while constantly interrogating this identity itself, her writing combines lyrical beauty with political urgency. This collection is ultimately a provocation―on trauma, on art, on what it takes to change the world.

Papercuts

Papercuts
Author: Noor Hindi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1462899307
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Quiet night, under the stars i lay,..wondering . . . . where are you now . . . . where are you babe . . . . we went our seperate ways . . . . i acted like i was ok . . . on the inside i was on my knees . . . begging heaven please . . . . begging heaven please . . . . i held back my tears . . . acted like i was ok . . . . i should have stopped you right there . . . . i should have told you how i feel . . . . i need you here . . . . my heart was crying even though my eyes never shed a tear

Dear You

Dear You
Author: Derra Sabo
Publisher: Higher Ground Books & Media
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2018-12-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949798081
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Derra Sabo shares a bit of her world with you in this delightful memoir filled with "letters" to family and friends. Overcoming challenges by simply living life; Derra shares her experiences here in hopes of helping the reader gain an appreciation for life as it happens.

"Thou, Dear God"

Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0807086045
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"Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section with short essays. Included are both personal and public prayers King recited as a seminarian, graduate student, preacher, pastor, and, finally, civil rights leader, along with a special section that reveals the biblical sources that most inspired King. Collectively they illustrate how King turned to private prayer for his own spiritual fulfillment and to public prayer as a way to move, inspire, and reaffirm a quest for peace and social justice. With a foreword by Rev. Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, it is the perfect gift for people and leaders of all faiths, and an invaluable resource for spiritual individuals and those who lead worship.

Dear Dad, It's Me!

Dear Dad, It's Me!
Author: Markeida L. Johnson
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016-03-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781498467117
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You will follow a portion of my life's journey as I traveled to reach the full potential God had for me because of being a fatherless daughter. I have allowed myself to be transparent through my circumstances and decisions so that others can see that no matter what life dishes out to you, anyone can overcome obstacles. God has shown a tremendous amount of grace and mercy towards me, and I am appreciative of where He has brought me from and absolutely excited about where He is taking me. I am no longer a victim of my circumstances but one who has overcame by the words of my testimony. I know that as long as I allow God to continue to lead me down the path He would have me go, I can't go wrong. Markeida L. Johnson has successfully been married for 21 years and have raised three sons. She has been in ministry for over 20 years and co-pastor a church with her husband since 2002. She and her husband, Gary Johnson, have a marriage ministry, 'No Air Between Us', as well as council couples for marriage preparedness and family values. She is currently attending college to obtain a degree in Psychology. She is the founder of a women's group called S.H.I.C. (SisterHood In Christ), under the umbrella of God's Women of Power-PMU. S.H.I.C. is inspired by her life experiences and spiritual wisdom to motivate others to overcome struggles. She is nicknamed 'the fire starter' by her fellow worshippers because she knows how to ignite the word of God in your life."

Build Yourself a Boat

Build Yourself a Boat
Author: Camonghne Felix
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1608466140
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2019 National Book Award Longlist: “Centering on black, female identity, [this is] an exquisite and thoughtful collection.” —Bustle This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. “With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro

All the Blood Involved in Love

All the Blood Involved in Love
Author: Maya Marshall
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642597228
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Marshall’s poems traverse familial mythography to investigate contemporary politics, Blackness, reproductive justice, and the stakes of race and interracial partnership, queerness, and love. With an unflinching seriousness she interrogates womanhood, meditates on race and queerness, and considers the monetary, mental, and physical costs of adopting or birthing a Black child.

A Map of My Want

A Map of My Want
Author: Faylita Hicks
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2024-07-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:
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From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks’s second collection explores the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde’s seminal essay “Uses of the Erotic,” Hicks’s A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult. Lyrically, Hicks interprets the US Declaration of Independence's infamous “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for themselves. Combining storytelling with Western astrology, this poetry collection is an intimate erotic spell through which Hicks conjures joy as they develop an alternate theory on how to attain happiness—through ecstatic healing.

If God Is a Virus

If God Is a Virus
Author: Seema Yasmin
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642594806
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Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet 's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. Documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes. These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book.

Nazar Boy

Nazar Boy
Author: Tarik Dobbs
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:
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From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents woven through the language of the colonizer. They challenge this power in visual, free-verse, and formally intense poems—both traditional and innovative—that stretch the elasticity of borders, verbs, images, redactions, and more. Ranging from sonnets to concrete poems, Nazar Boy is visually stimulating, thought-provoking, emotionally wrenching, and exquisitely crafted. Dobbs’ poems blur and collapse narrative distances within and between places, from the Levant to Michigan, and break down dichotomies portrayed in Western media: between Arabness and whiteness, intellectualism and the working poor, Muslimness and queerness, disability and desire. By turns irreverent and serenely gentle, Dobbs calls us to speak, to dream, and to imagine beyond those distances so that we might speak, dream, and imagine better versions of ourselves, our relationships to each other, and our places in the world.