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  • Vixen

    by Cherene Sherrard ...
    Cherene Sherrard’s debut poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity.Sherrard's work asks readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard’s poems interrupt and redirect the conversation. These voice-driven ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grimoire

    by Cherene Sherrard ...
    Named after a magical book, Cherene Sherrard’s Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and the exploration of black motherhood.Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearing, and childbearing, the book begins with a section of poems that re-imagine recipes from one of the earliest cookbooks by an African-American woman: Mrs. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Grimoire

    by Cherene Sherrard ...
    Narrated by Cherene Sherrard ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    Named after a magical book, Cherene Sherrard’s Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and the exploration of black motherhood.Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearing, and childbearing, the book begins with a section of poems that re-imagine recipes from one of the earliest cookbooks by an African-American woman: Mrs. ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

    Edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

    Edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s.Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and unique new perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance availableFeatures original contributions from both emerging scholars of the ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • Yours for Humanity

    New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    by John Cyril Barton, Elizabeth Cali, Sabine Engwer, Karin L. Hooks, Courtney Novosat, Colleen O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Valerie Sirenko, Hanna Wallinger, Edlie L. Wong ...
    Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Animals in the American Classics

    How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction

    by Susan F. Beegel, John Bird, Deborah Clarke, Robert Donahoo, William Engel, Barbara Heavilin, Stacey Peebles, Philip Edward Phillips, Anthony Reynolds, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Brian Yothers ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New YorkerSeamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John ... Read more

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  • The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

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    by Deborah Digges ...
    This breathtaking collection of poems by Deborah Digges, published posthumously, brings us rich stories of family life, nature’s bounty, love, and loss—the overflowing of a heart burdened by grief and moved by beauty.When Deborah Digges died in the spring of 2009, at the age of fifty-nine, she left this gathering of poems that returns to and expands the creative terrain we recognize as hers. Here ... Read more

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  • People Watching

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    In People Watching, we are invited to sit on a metaphorical bench alongside the author, reflecting on the myriad fragments of existence.From the tranquility of a silent autumn day to the ethereal beauty of a starry night, this collection of poems captures the delicate interplay between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Each verse is a love letter to life's subtleties, exploring themes of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

    Edited by Timothy Parrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • In the Salt Marsh

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    In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the retreat of deer at dusk, and the breakup of a river with the onset of spring. Willard is also deeply ... Read more

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