Bicycles : love poems / Nikki Giovanni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giovanni, Nikki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, American.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry--African American authors.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 109 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, [2009]

Summary:

In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, the author has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With this volume she has collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems. That book, romantic, bold, and erotic, expressed notions of love in ways that were delightful and unexpected. In the years that followed, the author 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, she 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 and presented in poetic form -- From book jacket.

Contents:

Blacksburg under siege: 21 August 2006

In simpler times

If only

Field notes

Migrations

I am jazz

Shoe jazz blue jazz

The 3rd rail

I am confused

My new car

Dinner at nine

My muse

I am glass

No heaven

Alchemical

Your shower

Good night

My sleep

Bicycles

I like the dance

I would not be different

Give it a go?

Another day (revisited)

Christmas laughter

I want a shoe

Drunken phone call

A substitute for you

I know the song

I am a mirror

Everything good is simple

Deal or no deal

I provide

Gray clouds hover

I am the ocean

I clean

So enchanted with you

How to save the world

Free Huey

My beer

They think

Why don't you love me

First chair

Friends and lovers

Love (and the meaning of love)

Flight delay

Travelers

Trash pans

Letting the air out

Fame

Duets

Boiled blues

Love Luther

Song for you

Friends in love

No translations

Twirling

Good books

Got a minute (to fall in love?)

Where do you enter

Tourism

The scenic route

Tree line

The artist

A fish out of water

We are Virginia Tech.

Notes:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, Winner, 2010

ISBN:

9780061726453

0061726451

OCLC:

232977474

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