The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni

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 present -- intensely personal and fiercely political -- from one of our most compassionate, outspoken observers.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 01/11/1996
ISBN: 9780688140472
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.80h x 5.68w x 1.11d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/18/1995 pg. 51
Booklist 12/15/1995 pg. 682
Library Journal 01/01/1996 pg. 103
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/1997 pg. 76