Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni

Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni

In her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki
Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge,
and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of
national crisis. Controversial, revolutionary, ethereal, or illuminating, her
poems about race, Black lives, violence, gender, and family move readers of
all ages and backgrounds.

With
BICYCLES, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 LOVE
POEMS. An instant classic, that book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed
notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that
followed, Giovanni 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, Giovanni 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 as never before by one of our most talented poets. In a time of
national crisis or personal crisis, this is a collection that will open minds
and change hearts as only the best art can.

 

 

Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five Living Legends. Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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ISBN 13	9780061726453
ISBN 10	0061726451
Title	Bicycles
Author	Nikki Giovanni
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2009-01-13
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.