| The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni Contributor(s): Giovanni, Nikki (Author) |
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ISBN: 0688140475 ISBN-13: 9780688140472 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $25.19 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Women Authors - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 95031646 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.68" W x 9.8" (1.08 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. |