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Sign up todayNikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good Cry
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Learn moreHear Nikki Giovanni read two extraordinary collections of her own work! A singular listening experience!
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Sheโs been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has touched our national consciousness.
Love Poems: Nikki reads a stunning collection of over twenty romantic, bold, and erotic love poems, expressing notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected and full of fearless passion and spirited wit. From the revolutionary ""Seduction"" to the tender ""Just a Simple Declaration of Love,"" and the elegiac ""All Eyez on U,"" written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.
A Good Cry: With her new collection Nikki offers listeners an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. Reading her work, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parentsโ marriage and her early life. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared.
""If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified โ and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts."" โย The Washington Post
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, was raised 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, as well as twenty-seven honorary degrees. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat speciesโMicronycteris giovanniaeโwas named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher, she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, was raised 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, as well as twenty-seven honorary degrees. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat speciesโMicronycteris giovanniaeโwas named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher, she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Nikki Giovanni
Narrator:
Nikki Giovanni
ISBN:
9780062743091
Length:
2 hours 42 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperAudio
Publication date:
October 24, 2017
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#1,575 Overall
Genre rank:
#6 in Poetry