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"Poet, firebrand, mother, radical, healer, and sage, Nikki Giovanni has always been celebrated for her inspired and courageous voice. For decades, she has spoken out on the sensitive issues--race and gender, violence and inequality--that touch our national consciousness. As energetic and insigh...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"Poet, firebrand, mother, radical, healer, and sage, Nikki Giovanni has always been celebrated for her inspired and courageous voice. For decades, she has spoken out on the sensitive issues--race and gender, violence and inequality--that touch our national consciousness. As energetic and insightful as ever, Nikki Giovanni now offers us an intimate and affecting look at her personal history and the hidden corners of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents' marriage and her child A celebrated American poet offers an intimate, affecting and revealing look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart, taking us into her confidence as she ruminates on her life and the people who have helped shape her into the woman she has become. |
| Item Description: | Autobiographical poems. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 111 pages ; 19 cm |
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9780062399458 0062399454 9780062835451 0062835459 |
| Index Number: | PS3557 |
| CLC: | I712.25 |
| Call Number: | I712.25/G512-1 |
| Contents: |
Heritage (for Walter Leonard) -- Bread -- Bears in spring -- Baby West -- A poem for Joanne (all the time) -- Space : our frontier -- Nikki Giovanni : a look at the development of this small business -- A poem for Morris -- A haiku for Mars -- Ashley Bryan (on the joyous celebration of his ninetieth birthday) -- If I have to hospital -- Lincoln Heights sits -- Education early on -- Volleyball : a ballet (for #17) -- There is a school -- The past ... the present ... the future -- Konko in the rain (for and in debt to Kwame Alexander) -- Toure's feet -- Thirst -- For Ruby De |