Description
Spanning the early decades of Nikki Giovanni’s influential career, this selection gathers poems that celebrate Black life, family, love, memory, and the sustaining power of community. Alongside incisive reflections on race, gender, and social justice, Giovanni’s work finds joy in ordinary pleasures—from childhood and home to food, music, and Southern landscapes. Her direct, intimate, and lyrical voice transforms personal experience into a broader meditation on identity, resilience, protest, and hope. Together, these poems reveal a groundbreaking poet whose work can be both a fearless call for change and a tender affirmation of life.
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paperback
William Morrow and Co.
Published Jan 1, 1996
292 pages
ISBN: 0688140475
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni.