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  • The 100 Best African American Poems

    Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number. The result is this startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African American verse. These magnetic poems are an exciting mix of most-loved classics and daring new writing. From Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, Natasha Trethewey, and many others, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • UPC: 760789225604
    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • ISBN: 9781402221118
    • Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion

  • A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

    One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her.The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and gender, that touch our national consciousness. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the p... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0062399454
    • ASIN: 0062399454
    • ISBN: 0062399454
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (P.S.)

    This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Who Ride the Night Winds. Nikki self–published her first book Black Feeling, Black Talk/BlackJudgement in 1969, selling 10,000 copies; William Morrow published in 1970. Know for its iconic revolutionary phrases, it is heralded as one of the most important volumes of modern African–American poetry and is considered the seminal volume of Nikki's body of work. My House (Morrow 1972) marks a new dimension in tone and philosphy––This is Giovanni's first foray into the autobi... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0060724293
    • ASIN: 0060724293
    • ISBN: 0060724293
    • Brand: Giovanni, Nikki/ Fowler, Virginia C. (INT)
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Love Poems

    In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's mos... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0688149898
    • ASIN: 0688149898
    • ISBN: 0688149898
    • Brand: Giovanni, Nikki
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995

    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... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0688140475
    • ASIN: 0688140475
    • ISBN: 0688140475
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Bicycles: Love Poems

    In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems. An instant classic, that book—romantic, bold, and erotic—expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private: a mother's passing, a sister's too, and a massacre on the campus where she teaches. Yet just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giova... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0061726494
    • ASIN: 0061726494
    • ISBN: 0061726494
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children

    A favorite collection of thirty-five poems for and about black children celebrates the energy and joy of life.
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0374464693
    • ASIN: 0374464693
    • ISBN: 0374464693
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

  • I Like Summer Best


    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: B000X33STO
    • ASIN: B000X33STO
    • Manufacturer: I AM Music Online

  • Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (A Poetry Speaks Experience)

    New York Times Bestseller! In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young," Sourcebooks MediaFusion is proud to introduce the joy of the written and spoken word in Poetry Speaks to Children.Parents, educators, librarians, and poetry enthusiasts have wondered for years how to get children really interested in poetry. Until now, there hasn't been a collection of poems and poets that spoke directly to that elusive audience. Poetry Speaks to Children cracks through that barrier by packaging the best poems by the best authors along with a CD-making the engrossing and often mischievous v... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1402203292
    • UPC: 760789208591
    • ASIN: 1402203292
    • ISBN: 1402203292
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion

  • Black Feeling Black Talk

    Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry. This book, electrifying generations with its revolutionary phrases and inspiring them with such Nikki Giovanni masterpieces as the lyrical "Nikki-Rosa" and the intimate "Knoxville, Tennessee," is the seminal volume of Nikki Giovanni's body of work. Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement made Nikki Giovanni famous in 1968, and this reissue of her classic will enthrall those who have always adored her poems--and those who are just getting to know her work.As a witness to three generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and poetically recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged fro... [Read More]
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems

    • ASIN: 068825294X
    • ASIN: 068825294X
    • ISBN: 068825294X
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • Love Poems

    In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems
    In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love

    • UPC: 371105
    • Rating: 5.0

  • 100 Best African American Poems, The

    Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems
    The 100 Best African American Poems

    • UPC: 12337656
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni

    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
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems
    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

    • UPC: 25668704

  • Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

    Twenty years after the release of the first edition of this bestseller, poet Nikki Giovanni has added 10 new poems to the 22 that made up the original collection. Powerfully illustrated by George Ford, Ego-Tripping captures the essence of the African-American experience in ways that have special relevance and appeal for
    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems
    Insightful and fun, this collection of poetry captures the essence of the African American experience for young

    • UPC: 25651914
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Nikki Giovanni: A Good Cry & Love Poems

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    Nikki Giovanni Best Poems
    Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & a Good Cry

    • UPC: 56185304

  • Nikki GIOVANNI / 100* BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN POEMS *But I Cheated 2010

    • UPC: 233474981740
    • Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
    • Price: 8 USD

  • The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni (2010, Mixed Media)

    • UPC: 264437108815
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 5 USD

  • The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni: Used

    • UPC: 362892022813
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 15 USD

  • The 100 Best African American Poems [Hardcover] Giovanni, Nikki

    • UPC: 254489439207
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 18 USD

  • The 100 Best African American Poems [With CD (Audio)]: (But I Cheated) by Nikki

    • UPC: 380716052549
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 22 USD

  • Why Not the Right Thing the First Time | Nikki Giovanni | TEDxHerndon

    Life is good; love is fun. Why not enjoy them both? Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, she and her sister returned to ...
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    A GOOD CRY by Poet Laureate, Nikki Giovanni

    One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. A GOOD CRY is available now: https://goo.gl/4mve2C.
    Nikki Giovanni,poetry,poetry collection,American poetry,African American poetry,Virginia Tech,Cre...

    Nikki Giovanni - Like A Ripple On A Pond (1973)

    Track listing 'Conversation'-How I Got Over 'Communication'-Sing A Song 'Prison Poem'-Give It To Jesus 'Africa II'-He's Sweet I Know 'My House'-To My Father's House 'Like A Ripple On A Pond'-I'm Gl...