selected poems of nikki giovanni

Very Good in Very Good jacket A Very Good copy with slight bumping to edges and corners in a Very Good dust jacket with a small closed tear and light edgewear, else a nice, clean copy. // From the publisher: ' 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.'.

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