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Love poems / Nikki Giovanni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giovanni, Nikki.
- Series:
- Black women writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Love poetry, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p. ; 19 cm.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Morrow, c1997.
- Summary:
- In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered. Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's most distinguished poets and powerful truth-tellers.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I
- What it is
- That Day
- The Way i Feel
- Kidnap Poem
- Giddiyap
- I Wrote a Good Omelet
- A Summer Love Poem
- Communication
- Love is
- I do Have My Likes and Dislikes
- Seduction
- Things that Go Together
- And i Have You
- A Poem of Friendship
- My House
- Just a Simple Declaration of Love
- Beautiful Black Men
- You Were Gone
- Cancers
- The Only True Lovers are Chefs or Happy Birthday, Edna Lewis
- Part II
- A Greater Love of God and Country
- For Tommy
- Mothers
- A Poem for langston hughes
- When Gamble and Huff Ruled
- You are There
- And Yeah...This is a Love Poem
- Swaziland
- For Theresa
- All Eyez on u
- Part III
- A Theory of Pole Beans
- No Furnaces (For Valentine's Day)
- August
- Poetry is a Trestle
- 1995
- A Happy Reason
- Balances
- Love in Place
- Three/Quarters Time
- Resignation
- Poem
- Luxury
- When i Nap
- The Butterfly
- I Want to Sing
- Rain
- How do You Write a Poem?
- Just a New York Poem
- Telephone Poem
- You Came, Too
- Her Flying Trapeze
- I Take Master Card
- In All Seasons
- An Excerpt from MAKE ME RAIN
- Make Me Rain
- No Pancakes Please
- A Query
- About the Author
- Other Books by Nikki Giovanni
- Copyright
- About the Publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-06-197893-0
- 0-06-179003-6
- OCLC:
- 268793650
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