Giovanni, Nikki

A collection of essays and prose by Nikki Giovanni.

A collection of fifty-one children's poems that features selections from Nikki Giovanni, Queen Latifah, and the Sugarhill Gang; and contains an audio CD with thirty performances.

A collection of poetry giving voice to the experience of Black people in America over the past twenty-five years. Arranged chronologically to reflect the changes the author has undergone in her life as a woman, lover, mother, teacher, and poet.

Presents more than two hundred poems written by African-American, Black Arts Movement writer Nikki Giovanni between 1968 and 1998.

Describes the unusual friendship that existed between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War years.

A collection of poems by Nikki Giovanni that offer insight into the elements and forces that have shaped the author's life and work.

A reflection on African-American history through the lyrics of spirituals. Explores how African American spirituals express the strength of a people to overcome enslavement.

Collected poems that serve as a companion to Giovanni's 1997 Love Poems. That book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love--what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love--and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart--is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.--From publisher description.