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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (January 23, 2007)
Okay, I admit she is not everybody's cup of tea (obviously as one can see with that last review) but she does have her charm. Personally I love her later work. Her early work is okay, but I can't make a connection to it as I'm a product of the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Her voice during those years served it purpose in the way African American art sought to seek a no-nonsense approach to black life in America (which wasn't as peachy fun as it should have been). "Black Feeling/Black Talk" and "Black Judgment" are written statements against White Supremacy (which was the child of Social Darwinism). But in her later works in the 70s, you see a shift in her work. The Black Power movement had died down (it didn't die out though) and so I guessed the logical approach to her work would have had to change as well. And thankfully it did. Not to say that she had softened into a free-loving poet but that her passion (which is still evident today in this 63 year old woman) has changed in its subjects.
My favorite book of hers (which this collection includes) is "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day", which was poignant and warm (while her earlier work had been provocative and hot). My second favorite book (which is not in this collection) is "Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems" (even though her new book "Acolytes: Poems" is pretty wonderful too). Some poems are really a joy to read. I remember when I first read "Ego-Tripping"; I thought that the title was perfect for the poem (cause her ego was tripping).Read more ›
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Her words were always her words, her voice was always evident in each word she put to paper. I heard her speak at a Writer's Workshop seminar at the University of Cincinnati when I was a senior in High School. She shares the same birthday as another one of my favorites (Prince)and she writes about her experiences as a person of color and as a product of her enviroment. Everyone comes from some place, and in her works you will get to see this place and meet the people and part of you will feel as if you grew up with her. This is a definite must have for anyone looking for the best of the comtemporary poets. You won't be disappointed.
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Nikki Giovanni is our great national treasure; please read and remember!
Though each word elicits unknown tears, each line a pain inside the throat denied its cry, read her and find comfort with her, a comfort she gives without receiving.
Read our poet, again and now.
I refer to the 2003 HarperCOllins William Murrow publication, now reprinted with a (PS) apparently, but who can add to this collection, which itself was a reprint of the earlier Selected Poems, with the same Virginia Fowler brilliantly handling the insightful Introduction, the comprehensive chronology and the ample annotations. The annotations themselves are excellent, in particular for those who did not survive those times, and for those of us who somehow did.
Read Nikki once more, and remember, and rediscover our heart and our soul, the soul of our nation now so lost, bought, stole.
Read Nikki to remember. She is our brilliant and embracing mother, sister, friend, who invites us home to eat and to rest.
I bought this book for my English learners but I keep it for myself, to weep with Nikki once more. She is that beautiful, and wise, like a holy grand mother.
Get up. Stand up. As Maya would cry, Arise! And read Nikki once more, please, my good friend. We will get there together. All together.
And while you are at it, go ahead and pre-order the grateful re-issue of her old Folkways recording The Reason I Like Chocolate. She is very much present here within the mighty Amazon, seek her out and you will find your own heart and soul once again, though in pain, but with her you may weep once more, and discover warming comfort from our long and dry loneliness in this odd, exile and alien land which was once the land of our birth, and rejoice within her brave good humour.
Read my Nikki Giovanni.
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Wonderful FULL synopsis of this woman's prolific career. The best of the Nikki Giovanni anthologies out there. I fully recommend this book if you want to support this poet.
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This item: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
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