Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. "MYSTIC TURF is the poetry that bears your name, like the very earth you walk upon and christen with your strides. In these poems that lyrically insinuate in brief yet lasting notes, Quraysh Ali Lansana tags the nervous streets, American foothills, domestic rooms and memories that constitute our bluesy soul, and asks, why can't we speak the grace we all avoid? We have no slipperiness here, just the solid walkings and meditations of a man poised in his life to speak the grace he's earned and to speak his journey with enormous dignity and artfulness...read more

Offers a collection of poems celebrating Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead her fellow slaves to freedom.

A selection of works from forty poets who have been published by Tia Chucha Press since 1989 includes the works of Terrance Hayes, Jean Howard, Nick Carbo, and Kyoko Mori.

Product Description: ""Welcome to the 21st Century"" bids the opening line of this literary ""multimedia"" experience, brought to us by three leading Black author-activists of the post-Civil Rights Movement generation. This collection of more than 300 poems, essays, paintings, photos, and mixed media representations features myriad voices of the generation bridging the gap between the children of the Civil Rights Movement and those of the present hip hop movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)