About the Book

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter.

One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her.

As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.

Resources

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062399458
• ISBN 10: 0062399454
• Imprint: William Morrow
• On Sale: 10/24/2017
• Pages: 128
• List Price:26.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : RELIGION / Essays
• BISAC2 : POETRY / American / African American
• BISAC3 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
• BISAC4 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• BISAC5 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists
• BISAC6 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
• BISAC7 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
• BISAC8 : POETRY / Women Authors
• BISAC9 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
• BISAC10 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Nikki Giovanni

Biography

Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, was raised in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she is also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, as well as twenty-seven honorary degrees. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat species—Micronycteris giovanniae—was named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher, she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Other Works by Nikki Giovanni

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  Make Me Rain

  By Nikki Giovanni

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  A Good Cry

  By Nikki Giovanni

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  Love Poems Vinyl Edition + MP3

  By Nikki Giovanni