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She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all ...
From her conversation with James Baldwin, an interview that first aired on the television program Soul!, later published as A Dialogue. Also included ...
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversia...
1968-1998
From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work! “Nikki Giovanni is one of our natio...
Forty-two poems written between 1970 to 1975....
Love Poems
In her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for socia...
Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable ...
Poems & Prose
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of soc...
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...
A poetry collection about love conveys the black author's feelings toward family relationships and life...
What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageou...
Protected by her mother's strong arms and the bonds of her community, a happy black girl carries her dreams as high as the sky....
A Hybrid
From one of America’s most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyd...
A major new career-spanning selection from one of the world’s foremost poets, an international treasure, from 1968 to the present day Nikki Giovanni...
An illustrated portrayal of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus and the historical aftermath of the event....
New Poems
Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni's unmistakable voice.In a career that has spanned three ...
Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in th...
Quiet . . . like a quilt on a feather bed . . . and frost on the window . . . we write our names knowing . . . the sun will melt them off But the sun ...
Poems and Not Quite Poems
“One of her best collections to date.” —Essence Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voi...
Profiles the founder of the "New Town" movement and discusses the development of British new towns, the Radburn Idea, Greenbelt Towns, and the America...
A collection of sharp and clean essays that cut to the bone of racism, by one of America's best writers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Port...
Collection of children's poems presenting life as it is experienced by black children....
Poems
Giovanni's most introspective and personal collection of poems to date....
An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet
In the lyrical, irreverent, and tough-talking voice that resounds in her poetry, Nikki Giovanni explores one of the most tumultuous periods of our his...
A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memo...
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Twenty years after the release of the first edition of this bestseller, poet Nikki Giovanni has added 10 new poems to the 22 that made up the original...
Describes the joys of summer spent with family in Knoxville: eating vegetables right from the garden, going to church picnics, and walking in the moun...
Thanks to the television program Soul!, a remarkable encounter between two of America's foremost Black writers was aired on public TV. Here, the trans...
An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor th...
An American Friendship
Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was t...
Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
A remarkable collection of poetry from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, stitched together with commentary from Giovanni.... An important resource fo...
In an account of the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, readers get a glimpse into the shared bond between two great American ...
Vacation Time has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....
A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel's beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, penned by an all-star cast of authors such as Sheree R...
Showcases a legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph through consequential events and people, covering milestones and challenges met while highlighting ...