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Call Us What We Carry: Poems (Hardcover) By Amanda Gorman $24.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country (Hardcover) By Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) $15.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback) By Claudia Rankine $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Him (Paperback) By Pierre Alex Jeanty, Sarah Plamondon (Editor), Celia James (Cover Design by) $15.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Empty Bottles Full of Stories (Paperback) By r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Poems: Maya Angelou (Mass Market) By Maya Angelou $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Paperback) By Hanif Abdurraqib $16.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) By Langston Hughes $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems (Hardcover) By Rita Dove $26.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women (Hardcover) By Maya Angelou $15.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Rest in the Mourning (Hardcover) By r.h. Sin $14.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) (Hardcover) By Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander (Editor) $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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