Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems

Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

A collection of 50 new poems, sketches, and meditations charts new territory, including popular culture and life in America, the poet's own battle with illness, relationships between mothers and their children, legendary historical figures, the South, the recent terrorist attacks, and Giovanni's own childhood. When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and influential poets of the era. Now, Giovanni continues to stand as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape. When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and influential poets of the era. Now, Giovanni continues to stand as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape. In a career spanning over thirty years, Giovanni has created a body of work that's become vital and essential to our American consciousness. This collection of new poems is a masterpiece that explores the ecstatic union between self and community. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is an extraordinarily intimate collection. Each poem bears our revered cultural icon's trademark of the unfalteringly political and the intensely personal: The elegant What We Miss exalts the might and grace of women, while Swinging on a Rainbow rejoices about the spaces in which we read Giovanni commemorates Africa and her family legacy in the majestic Symphony of the Sphinx and contemplates our America in the heartbreaking Desperate Acts and 9:11:01 He Blew It. And in the dreamy Making James Baldwin and dazzling Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Giovanni gives us reason to comfort, to share, to love, to change and to be human. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is Nikki Giovanni's meditation on humanity and soul. It's her revelatory gaze at the world in which we live -- and her confession on the world she dreams we will one day call home. Nikki Giovanni is a national treasure as she once again confirms her place as one of America's most powerful truth tellers and beloved daughters.

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SKU BK-9780060099534
Barcode # 9780060099534
Brand HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Artist / Author Nikki Giovanni
Shipping Weight 0.1700kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 23.400m
Assembled Height 1.000m
Assembled Width 14.100m
Type Paperback

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