The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of America's hottest and most controversial poets since the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni has been a teacher, mother, activist, and the unflagging poet of more than 13 poetry collections. This volume of her impeccably chosen, truth-telling poems is a celebration of her remarkable career and the changes she has endured as an African-American woman, lover, and feminist.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony of a life's work from one of the commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century.<p>From the revolutionary The Great Pax Whitie and Poem for Aretha to the sublime Ego Tripping and the tender My House, these 150 mind-speaking, truth-telling poems are at once powerful yet sensual, angry yet affirming. Arranged chronologically, they reflect the changes Giovanni has endured as a Black woman, lover, mother, teacher, and poet. Here is the evocation of a nation's past and present -- intensely personal and fiercely political -- from one of our most compassionate, outspoken observers.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony of a life's work from one of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century.
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