Poems: 1968-2020

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A new selection of Nikki Giovanni's poetry, from 1968 to the present day For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became one of the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Considered a living legend, this is the first new Selected since the late nineties, and offers readers a chance to be introduced to and to celebrate her incredible lifetime's work. Arranged chronologically, Giovanni's poetry speaks from and to the Black experience, with Black love, Black struggle and Black joy at the centre. The selection charts a full half-century of American life, touching on mothers and motherhood, great loves, death, dreams and revolution, showing Giovanni at her essential, profound best.

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One of the greatest poets of any generation -- Chicago Review of Books
The work of Nikki Giovanni has been as evolutionary as it has been revolutionary. One of the finest poets of our time. . . * Ebony *

Author Bio

Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honours. She is the author of thirty books and has received thirty-one honorary doctorates. Until 2022 she was the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.