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Just Us: Poems and Counterpoems 1986-1995
Just Us: Poems and Counterpoems 1986-1995 Kwame Alexander 9781888018004 Poetry Small Pr Distribution Small Pr Distribution Kwame Alexander’s first book of Poetry. Includes intro by Toni Blackman.
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...
Paulo Lins
Paulo Lins 0000000109587125 Paulo Lins, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1958, escaped the dangers of favela life to become a renowned writer. He studied at the University of Rio de Janeiro and published hi...
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka 0000000122837862 Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature Wole Soyinka, born July 13, 1934, is the first Black Nobel Laureate in Literature, awarded in 1986 for his work that fashions...
Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill 0000000029631982 Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) was a notable poet and activist, significant in the 1980s Washington D.C. art scene. Raised in poverty, he sought solace in poetry, explorin...
The Between
The Between Tananarive Due 9780063157675 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Award-winning author and Black Horror scholar Tananarive Due’s 1995 debut novel, The Between is reissued with a new fore...
The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018
The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018 Quraysh Ali Lansana 9781733647403 Poetry The Calliope Group The Calliope Group A 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner.Traversing twenty-thre...
Love Poems
Love Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688149895 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America’s most ...
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon Yona Harvey 9780615954202 Poetry Svaha Paradox Paradox Publishing This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contributors o...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks 0000000081816650 Brooks was U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1985-1986 (title was changed to U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986) Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-2000) was an influential African-Am...
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...
All Souls: Essential Poems
All Souls: Essential Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807162002 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of histor...
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995 Nikki Giovanni 9780688140472 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins When Nikki Giovanni’s poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 19...
Poems in the Attic
Poems in the Attic Nikki Grimes 9781620140277 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books During a visit to her grandma s house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mo...
Quiver Of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
Quiver Of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 Carl Phillips 9780374530785 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that sh...
1986
1986 Morgan Parker 9780995032224 Fiction QuoteStork Media QuoteStork Media Allana Harrison wanted out. She wanted to escape her painful, broken past and enjoy a fresh start somewhere else. Anywhere el...
Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories, 1968-1986
Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories, 1968-1986 Wanda Coleman 9780876857014 Poetry Black Sparrow David R. Godine, Publisher Poet Wanda Coleman provides a how-to manual, revealing some immediate w...
Kuwasi Balagoon
Kuwasi Balagoon 0000000050075212 Kuwasi Balagoon (1946-1986) was a key figure in the Black Liberation struggle and a member of the Black Panther Party. Known for his unique blend of anarchism and Bla...
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) Marie Brown Article ’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented a...
The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986
The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986 Kamau Brathwaite 9780299136444 Poetry University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press In May of 1986 Edward Kamau Brathwaite learne...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems Cheryl Clarke 9780810147607 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has span...
Amos N. Wilson
Amos N. Wilson 0000000083152296 Dr. Amos N. Wilson was a renowned psychologist, social worker, and academic who held roles in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice and taught at City Unive...
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951365 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelb...
The 100 Best African American Poems
The 100 Best African American Poems Nikki Giovanni 9781402221118 Poetry Sourcebooks MediaFusion Sourcebooks Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nik...
When the Wanderers Come Home
When the Wanderers Come Home Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 9780803288577 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contribut...
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse Langston Hughes 9780679728184 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Langston Hughes electrified readers and...
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great Camille T. Dungy 9780892553488 Poetry Persea Books Persea Books An astounding comp...
A Book of Poems for Black Kings
A Book of Poems for Black Kings Fulterius King 9798991482202 Poetry Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing A Book of Poems for Black Kings is a profound and empowering anthology that speaks dir...
All the Names Given: Poems
All the Names Given: Poems Raymond Antrobus 9781951142926 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigatio...
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011 Barbara Chase-Riboud 9781609805944 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The long breath of Barbara Chase-Ribo...
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780679764083 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar—. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, ...
Felon: Poems
Felon: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9780393652147 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a...
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink Kevin Young 9781608195510 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street ven...
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings Ted Joans 9781894800006 Poetry Ekstasis Editions Ekstasis Editions Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the...
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers Kwame Alexander 9781499364781 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC From Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medalist, a collection of poetry for young people. STA...
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery Cynthia Grady 9780802853868 Nonfiction Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company This powerful collection of poems chronic...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Knucklehead: Poems
Knucklehead: Poems Tony Keith Jr. 9780063296053 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins dear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skin are thick enough to ...
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374604851 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Priz...
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller 9780996139021 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books “The volume itself and the poems chosen for its publication ...
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson 9780807147344 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries...
Roll Deep: Poems
Roll Deep: Poems Major Jackson 9780393353624 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit ...
Blues Poems
Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka 9781324097501 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems, Adr...
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780060562861 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Celebrate the love of brothers and sisters everywhere with award-winning author Eloise Greenfield in t...
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Boston Weatherford 9780399237263 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine o...
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems Tony Medina 9781933491943 Poetry Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, ma...
No Surrender
No Surrender Robert Fleming Book Review When news reached me about the death of renowned poetess, Ai, I knew that I must write something about her and her unwavering lyrical examination of the hu...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
La Caille Nous
La Caille Nous La Caille Nous La Caille Nous Publishing Company https://www.lcnpublishing.com/ La Caille Nous (La Caille Nous means "our house" in Haitian creole) is an independen...
La Caille Nous
La Caille Nous La Caille Nous Publishing Company La Caille Nous https://www.lcnpublishing.com/ La Caille Nous (La Caille Nous means "our house" in Haitian creole) is an independen...
Journey: Poems
Journey: Poems Wade Hudson 9780883784174 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Journey is a collection of poems that offers a reflective look at various periods and experiences of Wade Hudson’s l...
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems Gabriel Okara 9780803286870 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decade...
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems Alice Walker 9781608681884 Poetry New World Library New World Library Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can st...
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa Kadija Sesay 9781905233014 Poetry Flipped Eye Publishing Flipped Eye Publishing The anthology, Dance the Guns to Silence celebrates the life, str...
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...
Darling: New & Selected Poems
Darling: New & Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these thing...
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819512116 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 199...
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819567390 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 9780393319729 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country’s most influential poe...
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780064430975 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An ALA Notable Children’s Book, Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems includes sixteen poems that tell ...
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines Loading SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES (January - June 2000) Poetry BlackWords Poetry Chapbook Series Please submit two hard-copy versions of five (5) of your most represen...
Book Of Hours: Poems
Book Of Hours: Poems Kevin Young 9780307272249 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my ...
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines Troy Johnson Article SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES (January - June 2000) Poetry BlackWords Poetry Chapbook Series Please submit two hard-copy versions of five (5) of your mos...
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt 0000000120374593 Usain Bolt, born August 21, 1986, is recognized as the fastest person ever timed. He holds world records in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay, won six Olympic gold medals, ...
Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected
Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected Haki Madhubuti 9780883784198 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press “Haki R. Madhubuti knows that nothing human is elegant. He is no...
Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen
Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen 9781399523608 Fiction Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh University Press Harryette Mullen is one o...
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey 0000000114891842 Oprah Winfrey, a multi-billionaire and influential media owner, is best known for her highest-rated TV show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also runs the renowned Oprah Bo...
Oteia Bruce
Oteia Bruce NONE Oteia Bruce is an experienced financial services professional with a focus on biblically based money management since 1986. She held key positions at Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and B...
Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell 0000000082044357 Jerry Mitchell, a renowned Mississippi reporter since 1986, has won over 30 national awards. He founded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit...
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop 0000000122785089 Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) was a renowned Senegalese scholar from an aristocratic Muslim family. Educated in traditional Islamic school, Diop later earned a ba...
We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006
We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006 Esther Iverem 9781560259169 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group An essential look at the cultural dissemination of Afri...
A Portable Paradise
A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson 9781845234331 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism; observ...
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes 9781682260951 Poetry University of Arkansas Press University of Arkansas P...
Mercurial
Mercurial Allison Joseph 9781936419647 Poetry Mayapple Press Mayapple Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. MERCURIAL is the latest collection of poems from Allison Joseph: always accessib...
Bicycles: Love Poems
Bicycles: Love Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780061726491 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and b...
Kupenda: Love Poems
Kupenda: Love Poems Kwame Alexander 9781888018233 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords Alexander’s first collection of verse since 1995 embraces and examines the peaks and lows of friendship, intimate love, ...
The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni Rondall Brasher Book Review The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni has been grafted to my hands for the last 3 weeks. This anthology is the chronological atlas...
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More Troy Johnson Article This Month’s Newsletter is Made Possible by Support From Amistad Authors You Should Know Tracy K. Smith...
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas Booker T. Mattison Article Production designer Wynn Thomas started working in theatre as a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. Upon graduation...
Rita Dove
Rita Dove 0000000114709625 Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her poetry collections, novel, and drama. She's been reco...
RuPaul
RuPaul 0000000055514093 RuPaul Andre Charles, a Tony and Emmy award-winning executive producer and host, is renowned for his contributions to the TV franchise RuPaul's Drag Race. Known for his music,...
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9780358118237 Poetry William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and selected poems drawn from Domestic Wo...
Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel L. Swarns NONE Rachel L. Swarns is a renowned journalist and author, focusing on race relations for the New York Times since 1995. She has covered domestic policy, national politics, immigrati...
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges NONE Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges (1950-2006) was a prominent professor of Social Work and African American Studies at California State University. She held a Ph.D. from Temple...
Seeing the Body: Poems
Seeing the Body: Poems Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781324005667 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisi...
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995 Julius E. Thompson 9780786422647 Fiction McFarland McFarland In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a...
Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems
Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems Latorial Faison 9781646427277 Poetry University of Alaska Press University of Alaska Press Nursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and ...
I’ll Take You There: Intersection of Poetry and Plain Talk
I’ll Take You There: Intersection of Poetry and Plain Talk Verdelle Lambert 9781732091009 Poetry Verdelle Lambert Verdelle Lambert I’ll Take You There is a book of 50 poems about familiar things imagi...
The Ground: Poems
The Ground: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374533847 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voiceA poignant and terse vision of New...
The Ground: Poems
The Ground: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374167080 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice A poignant and terse vision of...
Femme Du Monde: Poems
Femme Du Monde: Poems Patricia Spears Jones 9781882688319 Poetry Tia Chucha Tia Chucha Press These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliché...
Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things
Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things Book Spotlights Here Herb Boyd talks about his book; Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography. He also talk about Harlem in general,...
Evelyn Palfrey
Evelyn Palfrey NONE Evelyn Palfrey, a native Texan, is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas Law School. As an attorney and writer, she's known for her romantic susp...
The Forest: Poems
The Forest: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644454312 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. Sm...
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644450673 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith ...
Herb Boyd
Herb Boyd 0000000110710186 Herb Boyd Receives Social Justice Award Herb Boyd, born in 1938, is an award-winning author and journalist. He's written over 20 books and numerous articles, with notable wo...