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 gets boring fast. Also there wasn't a poem in here that really got to me. Liked a fair number of them. Found plenty of them boring. Loved loved loved! I bunny eared all the poems I loved in the book and now it looks twice as big as it did before I began.Being the hopeless romantic that i am a lot of the poems resonated with me. Because of the personal relationship I could have with the text made me love the poems so much more than just appreciating her for her ability to write. I loved her dedications, her imagery, her parallelisms. Phenomenal I'm glad i finally read it!
I write like Nikki...fragmented and cryptic at times. I get her intimate poems.
—Jen
just found this little gem at the library, so excited to dive in
—Stitch
Great Reading..good poetry..like an old friend!
—RNA
Great poems about everyday life.
—kenderina
I love me some Nikki Giovanni!
—ViaNeo
