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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
When a respected musician passes away, they are almost always remembered for their artistry, their virtuosity, their character – if they’re lucky, perhaps [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Diane Middlebrook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Genre: Non-Fiction
Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter
Clifford Brown is idolized by many today as the greatest jazz trumpeter to have ever played. He earned this reputation despite his untimely death at the [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Nick Catalano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Non-Fiction
I Put a Spell on You
Discover your purpose. This is a goal that unites all of us as we try to find a meaning in life. But imagine losing all autonomy of choice due to your [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Nina Simone
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Genre: Non-Fiction
Miles Davis: The Autobiography
Miles Davis, you may recognize the name through his infamous relationship with heroin and women, but within the first beat of his self-titled [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Genre: Non-Fiction
Black Has Always Been The Strongest Color
Claudia Rankine skillfully and powerfully displays the everyday struggles of a black woman in society throughout her beautiful words of poetry and intense [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Greywolf Press
Genre: Poetry
Poetry & Prosthetics
The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise is an electric and audacious collection of poetry that shows readers the complexity behind emotional and sexual [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Jillian Weise
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Genre: Poetry
The Sun And Her Review
In this book of poems, Kaur takes you on a literary ride through five sections. Wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. In these sections, each [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Rupi Kaur
Publisher: Andrews McMeel
Genre: Poetry
Lighthouse For The Drowning: A Review of the English Half
Lighthouse For The Drowning is Jawdat Fakhreddine’s first U.S. publication, but his poetry is known throughout the global Arab community. A native of [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Jawdat Fakhreddine
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd. Rochester NY
Genre: Poetry
Inherit
From the cover, readers of Ginger Ko’s Inherit are asked to confront scale: a stark landscape inhabited by a daughter, left to “pull [herself] out of it on [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Ginger Ko
Publisher: Sidebrow Books
Genre: Poetry
Bough Down
Karen Green’s Bough Down is a profoundly emotional experience. In terms of form, it bridges the gap between the prose poem and the lyric essay, with [...]
March 21, 2018
Author: Karen Green
Publisher: siglio
Genre: Non-Fiction
Genre: Poetry