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Cotton candy on a rainy day : poems / by Nikki Giovanni.
LIBRA PS3557.I55 C6
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LIBRA - Rare PS3557.I55 C6 1978 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giovanni, Nikki.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Giovanni, Nikki (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978.
- Contents:
- Cotton candy on a rainy day
- Introspection
- Forced retirement
- The New Yorkers
- Crutches
- Boxes
- Poem
- A poem off center
- The winter storm
- Age
- Because
- Their fathers
- Life cycles
- Adulthood II
- Habits
- Fascinations
- Gus
- Choices
- Photography
- The Beep beep poem
- A poem for Ed and Archie
- Woman
- Space
- Poem (for Ema)
- The rose bush
- Patience
- Make up
- Winter
- You are these
- A Statement on Conservation
- Turning (I need a better title)
- A reponse
- A poem of friendship
- Being and nothingness
- The moon shines down
- That day.
- Notes:
- "Book design: Carl Weiss."
- Introduction: A Woman of the Seventies (pages 11-19) by Paula Giddings.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has autograph of Nikki Giovanni.
- ISBN:
- 0688033652
- OCLC:
- 4036546
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