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All These Ghosts

All These Ghosts

The Opposite of Cruelty

The top half is white and the bottom half is black. There are branches, a bird, and a red ribbon at both the top and bottom, and a window on the top right, and a mirror on the bottom left.

The Opposite of Cruelty

Cover of The Necessity of Wildfire by Caitlin Scarano. Image of an orange and red sunset with the silouette of powerlines and trees at the bottom. A red crescent moon is centered at the top.

The Necessity of Wildfire

In the bottom is clip art of two black boys wearing green shirts in front of purple trees. In the top right is a cloud. On the left is a black person standing on a white circular surface.

The Future of Black

Cover of All We Know of Pleasure by Enid Shomer. Nude cartoon figures of varying skin tones make up the background. In the center is a dark brown block with the title in pink text.

All We Know of Pleasure

A gray metallic background with a silver trumpet in the foreground.

The Geography of Jazz

River Road

A stylized river in the foreground and the valleys and peaks of mountains in the background against a pinkish sky that reflects on the water.

A watercolor painting of a cabin in the mountains. There is a light teal plume of smoke rising from the cabin, and a large dark green tree on the right side of the cover.

A brightly colored background of brushstrokes of teal, green, pink,, and a Black woman with an afro in the foreground looking upward to where the title appears in white text.

All the Songs We Sing

Cover of Breath of the Song by Jaki Shelton Green. A black background with a textured light teal center. An image of a bird and some flowers can be made out in a lighter tone on the blue.

Breath of the Song

A photograph of a red and white quilt with cushions and bowls of stones and artifacts on top. The botton third of the cover is a butter yellow with the text in red font.

Cover of Dead on Arrival by Jaki Shelton Greene. A gray background with the photograph of a gold cast of a human face, with a snake coiled around it.

Dead On Arrival

A small yellow bird sits in the bottom right quadrant, with a starburst of yellow and red behind him. The title is in black letters above the starburst pattern.

Little Domesday Clock

Cover of Binary Stars by Dana Koster. A red galazy full of stars, with the title centered at the top of the page.

Cover of a half-red sea by Evie Shockley. A painting of a grey sea with a red cloudy sky, framed by lavender and red lines containing the title.

The photograph of concentric circles of different colors and paint drips. The title is in white block letters at the top of the page.

What Else Could It Be

A photograph of three hands holding one another against a dark background. The top hand has a ring on the middle finger.

Cover of Matching Skin by Shirlette Ammons. The background is textured red and orange, with the title in opaque white text.

Goldberg Variations

Cover of Crowns of Charlotte by Lee Ann Brown. The photograph of a woman looking closely at a chandelier. She is wearing a pink ruffled dress. The title is in red script font.

Crowns of Charlotte

A light green background with the photograph of a dense forest with light filtering through centered on the page. The title is above the image.

Living Above the Frost Line

Cover of Inside the Money Machine by Minnie Bruce Pratt. The photograph of a blossoming tree very close to the lens, with a streelight and road signs in the background at night.

Inside the Money Machine

An abstract painting of a figure staring at something in their hands. The painting is in dark shades of brown and red, and the figure can only just be made out.

and Aeneas stares into her helmet

A painting of a man huging a red wolf against a mustard-yellow background.

Book of Ystwyth, The

Boy Returning Water to the Sea

Flying Days, The

Suddenly, Fruit

The black and white photograph of a child nursing, but only the mother's hands are pictured. The title is in light blue block letters above the photograph.

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singing a tree into dance

Far Sides of the Only World

In This Paradise