Traversing twenty-three years of earth and breath, Quraysh Ali Lansana's first new and collected poems roadmaps small town Oklahoma to southside Chicago in compelling poems that question, surprise and dare. As a direct descendent of the Black Arts Movement and last student of Miss Gwendolyn Brooks, Lansana explores the complicated internal and external terrain of Blackness and history from a post-King, post-Kennedy childhood through the election of the first non-White president, while grappling with the definition of home. These are poems that cry, sing, scream and see.

The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018

Literature & Fiction

Lansana, Quraysh Ali

Poetry

Calliope Group

It's the day after tomorrow.
America has become a Police State Lite. The Patriot Amendments have swallowed the Bill of Rights. Creationism trumps science. The Patriot Tribunal overrules the Supreme Court. And the drones of the Homeland Police are always watching.
Enter Blingbling. Brought to official attention by a hip-hop murder, he's foreign-looking, undocumented, and apparently homeless. His hard-boiled lawyer, Raleigh, keeps the Homeland cops at arm's length until a routine DNA test exposes a secret thousands of years old--one that threatens to destroy his client, his career, and much more.

American Neolithic

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hawkins, Terence

Science Fiction

Opal's Greenwood Oasis

The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me."In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T.Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street.Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history. As we approach the centennial of that tragic event, children have the opportunity through this book to learn and celebrate all that was built in Greenwood.

Children's Books

Hylton, Najah-Amatullah

The Rage of Achilles

Product Description "We know what will happen to Achilles, and it can't change: but through Hawkins' eyes and ears, the story will be new and grippingly real to readers of this age."—John Crowley, World Fantasy Award Winner and author of Ka and Little, BigIn The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins recounts the Iliad as a novel and imagines a Trojan War that really happened. Though he adopts Homer's characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare. And however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated.His realism extends to the gods themselves. Informed by Julian Jaynes' groundbreaking theory of the bicameral mind-the basis of HBO's "Westworld"-The Rage of Achilles takes place in a world in which the modern human consciousness struggles painfully to be born. The gods are only the hallucinations of men and women desperate to be told what to do in a terrifying and confusing world.Told in taut, elegant prose that captures both the Homeric lyric and military grit, The Rage of Achilles is a fast-moving take on literature's foundational epic. Review "Hawkins' tale moves with the force of a cyclone. . . It will be impossible not to be entertained and moved by this rendering of the age-old story."-Historical Novels Review"The ancient world feels new again in Terence Hawkins' The Rage of Achilles, which . . . combines a raw, idiomatic retelling of the Iliad with a searching assay of human consciousness. Unique and invigorating."-Louis Bayard, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln and The Pale Blue Eye."The Rage of Achilles is that rare thing-a genuinely fresh take on a classic text. Terence Hawkins' modern retelling of "The Iliad" has the paradoxical, invigorating effect of making Homer's epic feel oddly familiar, and of highlighting its deep strangeness at the same time." -Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers"Hawkins provides much new insight on the tale . . . and turns something ancient into a new read, worthy of a second viewing. The Rage of Achilles is a fine spin on Homer's classical tale, a highly recommended read."- Midwest Book Review"Hawkins' novel explores war with all its smells, terrors, and blood. It is the kind of heart-pumping, edge-of-your-seat book that readers long for and diligently seek."-History and Women

Literary

Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art

Arts & Photography

Kestner, Joseph A.

Music

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