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Book Description

Publication Date: February 1988

In this collection of essays and articles, Nikki Giovanni, our most widely read living black poet, takes on some lofty institutions and major life crises and clearly comes out the winner.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cries of outragedelightful onespunctuate this book. So do repeated interjections of "Hey!" The noted poet expresses (and impresses with) her strong attitudes about poverty, stupidity, prejudice, ineffectual black leadership, insects, credit cards and other inducements to consumerism, female exploitation, TV commercials, ex-smokers, required seat-belting, men who walk a picket line against abortion, dumb sports announcers. She feels more positively about her teenage son, soap, being happy with what she has, Little House on the Prairie and the virtues of baseball ("probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play" and the only one you don't have to watch to know what's going on). Previously published in magazines and newspapers, these addicting essays are fresh and funnyand enjoyable out-loud reading.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Seeing writing as "a reflection of the moment," Giovanni tackles the "nuts and bolts" of life in this collection of essays. A best-selling poet, she is also a black woman in her 40s struggling with everyday victories and defeats, and she comments persuasively on what it means to be black and female in America today. To all her subjectsthe national anthem, freedom of speech, the purpose of art, or the purchase of a reliable car for her mothershe brings insight and a lightheartedness that says we must not take ourselves too seriously. Both amusing and enlightening; a joy to read. Nancy R. Ives, State Univ. of New York at Geneseo
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.