I could hear a little music in my head with some of these poems - I liked that. There is definitely a jazzy rhythm here. There's a fair amount of fairly tame but fun sexual stuff in here. I like that. But there's also a lot of feminine please-love-me desperation. That's not my thing at all and ge...
Putting poetry to beats is a creative idea, and Nikki Giovanni does an excellent job in putting together a collection of 51 poems for the book "Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat." The poems are written by various authors and include various forms. There are classica...
Many of these poems and essays are more peaceful than Nikki's previous works that I'm familiar with, coming to her work as did much of the country, after the Virginia Tech massacre. Chasing Utopia (which opens with beer don't you know,) has more food, and down home, and weather, and family. Othe...
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Wh...
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni Africa II africa is a young man bathing in the back of a prison fortress the guide said “are you afro-american cape coast castle holds a lot for your people” and the 18th century clock keeps perfect time for the time it has i watched his black skin turn foam...
I attended Oak Avenue School. I usually walked from Burns to Pendery to Oak Avenue. It was a beautiful school. We had swings and monkey bars and a baseball and kickball field. And I think my favorite memory is Mrs. Scott, who was my first- and second-grade teacher, taking us into the school groun...