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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew.
It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'". It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside - from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs - to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.
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This is music
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A Little Devil in America
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- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
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“I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.” Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space
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Magical
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Beautiful
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Time Is a Mother
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In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.
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- Narrado por: JD Jackson
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- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 212
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Magical
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Go Ahead in the Rain
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- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Time Is a Mother
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In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.
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The terrible narration
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Homie
- Poems
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- Narrado por: Danez Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living.
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Poignant!
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
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Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
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The Fire Next Time
- De: James Baldwin
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General5 out of 5 stars 8,965
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 09-17-15
De: James Baldwin
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The Color Purple
- De: Alice Walker
- Narrado por: Samira Wiley
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.
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Wow!
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And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)
- A Book of Poems
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 22 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,658
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,432
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,408
Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M. F.K . Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity.... It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night...it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Jean en 06-04-14
De: Maya Angelou
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Money Out Loud
- All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us
- De: Berna Anat
- Narrado por: Berna Anat
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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In this illustrated, deeply unserious guide to money, Berna Anat—aka the Financial Hype Woman—freaks out her immigrant parents by doing the unthinkable: Talking about money. Loudly. Because we’re done staying silent, anxious, and ashamed about our money. It's time to join the party and finally learn about all the financial stuff that always felt too confusing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read!
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De: Berna Anat
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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
- A Memoir
- De: Lucinda Williams
- Narrado por: Lucinda Williams
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 157
Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Someone should have told her
- De Jill en 05-09-23
De: Lucinda Williams
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Assata
- De: Assata Shakur, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Sirena Riley
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- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,970
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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list. Assata Shakur's trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations and police brutality in the USA. While Assata's detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knowledge is power
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De: Assata Shakur, y otros
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12 Notes
- On Life and Creativity
- De: Quincy Jones
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Quincy Jones
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,145
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Wisdom and musings on creativity and life from one of the world’s most beloved musicians, producers, and mentors, Quincy Jones. 12 Notes is a self-development guide that will affirm that creativity is a calling that can and should be answered, no matter your age or experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I lived these notes with Quincy
- De Thomas Bähler en 04-29-22
De: Quincy Jones
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,010
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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skip the introduction!
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Dilla Time
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- De: Dan Charnas, Jeff Peretz - contributor
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He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of 32, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Only a few chapters in <3
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Wade in the Water: Poems
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith's signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical, and wry - turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brings the Reader to tears!
- De Tom en 08-12-20
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It’s a common turn of phrase that poetry is meant to be heard. Tone, pauses, cadence, and vocal inflections all serve to further the emotional pull of modern and historical poetic masterpieces. In audio, poems can be heard and enjoyed just as the poet meant them to be. Taking into account not only the words themselves but the way they are spoken, our list provides a look at the power behind a poem, celebrating those works which have touched our souls.
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Like a real live reading
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Exceptional ★ Masterpiece
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Very Enjoyable
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A very talented poet
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Well Performed Passionate Verse
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