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Summary: For the first time ever, the complete poetry collection spanning three decades from Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet and one of America's national treasures. When her poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, in the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni immediately took her place among the most celebrated, controversial and influential poets of the era. Now, more than thirty years later, Giovanni still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: A collection of fifty-two poems by African-American poet Nikki Giovanni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: An illustrated description of Rosa Parks' historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus that led to a boycott that lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARGiovanni, Nikki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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Summary: Collection of 80 new poems and prose pieces including some about slavery, Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Nina Simone, Dorothy Height, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Richard Fewell, the Ishley Brothers, Jackie Robinson, librarians, and libraries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGiovanni, Nikki.
Contents: Gemini : an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a black poet (1971) -- Sacred cows ... and other edibles ... (1988) -- Racism 101 (1994).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5408 GIOGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: In Poem for Black Boys, she writes: "Where are your heroes, my little Black ones / You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot / Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse / You should play run-away-slave or Mau-Mau / These are more in line with your history." By the author of Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996