Monday, December 9, 2019

Graywolf Press publications by black writers during the 2010s



Take a look back on the production of black poetry during the 2010s, and you'll likely note the important presence of Graywolf Press, which has had an a tremendous decade. Well, really, we could say the press has had a remarkable run in the 21st century with respect to black writers. Since 2000, the press has published more than 30 books by more than 18 black writers.

Claudia Rankine's Citizen -- sometimes classified as prose poetry, sometimes classified as essays --has been one of the most popular black-authored books of the past decade. But that's not Graywolf's only big success. Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Poetry Society of America's Four Quartets Prize.

Here's a roundup of some of their publications -- poetry, fiction, and nonfiction:

Poetry
2010: Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems (hardcover) by Elizabeth Alexander
2010: Skin Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (hardcover) by Thomas Sayers Ellis
2010: Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson
2011: Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
2012: Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems (paperback) by Elizabeth Alexander
2013: Skin Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (paperback) by Thomas Sayers Ellis
2013: Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen
2013: Scratching the Ghost by Dexter L. Booth
2014: The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips
2015: Turning into Dwelling by Christopher Gilbert
2016: Bestiary by Donika Kelly
2017: Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
2018: Wade in the Water (hardcover) by Tracy K. Smith
2019: Wade in the Water (paperback) by Tracy K. Smith
2019: Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq

Fiction
2011: Erasure (reprint) by Percival Everett
2011: Assumption by Percival Everett
2013: Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
2014: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2014: Love is Power, or Something Like That by A. Igoni Barrett
2014: Glyph by Percival Everett
2014: Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Renard Allen
2015: Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett
2015: Rails Under My Back (reprint) by Jeffrey Renard Allen
2016: Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
2017: So Much Blue by Percival Everett
2018: This Mournable Body: A Novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga
2018: A Lucky Man (short stories, hardcover) by Jamel Brinkley
2019: A Lucky Man (short stories, paperback) by Jamel Brinkley

Nonfiction
2012: The Grey Album by Kevin Young
2014: The Art of Daring; Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips
2017: The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat
2017: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists...Fake News (hardcover) by Kevin Young
2018: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists...Fake News (paperback) by Kevin Young
2019: The White Card: A Play by Claudia Rankine

Related:
Graywolf Press, Black Writers, and Book History
Black Book History, February 2019
Graywolf Press and African American Poetry
The Graywolf Press black poetry mix & Christopher Gilbert
Graywolf brings Christopher Gilbert to a new generation of readers
Select Graywolf Press Books by Black Writers, 2000 - 2013
Black Poetry published by Graywolf Press

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What a fantastic compilation, Howard! Thank you so much.