Africana Studies

Literature and Poetry

Just for a Thrill: Poems

Geoffrey Jacques

A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice.

“Look for Me All Around You”: Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance

Edited and with an Introduction by Louis J. Parascandola

This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.

A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press

Edited by Gloria House, Albert M. Ward, and Rosemary Weatherston

A collection of work from six of Broadside Press’s most influential poets during the 1960s and 1970s.

Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson

Edited with a postscript by Ted Pearson and Kathryne V. Lindberg

From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit’s glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in its evocation of jazz and its improvisations on the classics.

Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens

Keith Gilyard

This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.