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Gemini : an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a Black poet / Nikki Giovanni.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.I55 Z5 1972
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giovanni, Nikki, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Giovanni, Nikki.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- African American poets--Biography.
- African American poets.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Lask Poetry Collection.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Giovanni, Nikki (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 149 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., [1972]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Barbara Crosby
- 400 Mulvaney Street
- For a four-year-old
- On being asked what it's like to be black
- A revolutionary tale
- Don't have a baby till you read this
- It's a case of...
- A spiritual view of Lena Horne
- The weather is a cultural determiner
- The beginning is zero
- Black poems, poseurs, and power
- The sound of soul, by Phyllis Garland: a book review with a poetic insert
- Convalescence - compared to what?
- Gemini - a prolonged autobiographical statement on why.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks, with her bookplate on half-title leaf and her embossed stamp on p. [v].
- Banks Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Giovanni, Nikki. Gemini.
- OCLC:
- 231224
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