The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni

Informationen zum Autor Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, grew up in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she was also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, the Frost Medal, as well as thirty-one honorary degrees and an Emmy Award. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat species— Micronycteris giovanniae— was named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher and honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified — and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts." —  The Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Nikki Giovanni
• Assisted by: Virginia Fowler (Illustration)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.1996
• EAN: 9780688140472
• ISBN: 978-0-688-14047-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, Narrative theme: Politics, Epic, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Aspects of religion, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Classic and pre-20th century poetry, POETRY: POETS: C TO I, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black, Poetry / Poets: C to I