The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni

Author(s): Giovanni, Nikki
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Subjects: Women--United States--Poetry
African American women--Poetry
African Americans--Poetry
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: New York : William Morrow and Co., c1996
LC Classification: P, PS
Table of Contents: Foreword / Virginia C. Fowler 1
Chronology 12
Stardate Number 18628.190 19
Detroit Conference of Unity and Art 23
On Hearing "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" 24
You Came, Too 25
Poem (For BMC No. 1) 26
Poem (For BMC No. 2) 27
Poem (For PCH) 28
Poem (No Name No. 1) 29
Poem (For BMC No. 3) 30
Black Separatism 31
Poem (No Name No. 2) 32
Poem (No Name No. 3) 33
I'm Not Lonely 34
For an Intellectual Audience 35
Black Power 36
Seduction 37
Word Poem 38
Poem for Black Boys 39
The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. 41
Nikki-Rosa 42
The Great Pax Whitie 43
Intellectualism 46
Universality 47
Knoxville, Tennessee 48
Adulthood 49
Dreams 51
Revolutionary Music 52
Beautiful Black Men 54
Woman Poem 55
For Saundra 58
Balances 60
For Theresa 61
My Poem 63
For Tommy 67
No Reservations 68
Alone 70
For Two Jameses 71
Autumn Poems 72
Rain 73
Housecleaning 74
Poem For Aretha 75
Revolutionary Dreams 79
Walking Down Park 80
Kidnap Poem 83
The Geni In The Jar 84
All I Gotta Do 85
Master Charge Blues 87
For A Lady Of Pleasure Now Retired 88
Alabama Poem 90
Ego Tripping 92
Poem For Flora 94
Sometimes 95
Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like 96
How Do You Write A Poem? 97
And Sometimes I Sit 99
I Want To Sing 100
Ever Want To Crawl 101
Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis 105
Legacies 113
Mothers 114
Winter Poem 116
Conversation 117
Rituals 119
The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be 120
The Butterfly 121
I Remember 122
A Certain Peace 124
When I Nap 125
Just a New York Poem 126
[Untitled] 128
The Wonder Woman 129
Categories 130
Scrapbooks 132
When I Die 135
[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner) 137
My Tower 138
Poem (For Nina) 139
Africa I 140
Africa II 141
They Clapped 143
Poem (For Anna Hedgeman and Alfreda Duster) 145
Atrocities 146
We 148
My House 149
The Women Gather 153
Once A Lady Told Me 155
Each Sunday 156
The December Of My Springs 158
The Life I Led 159
The Way I Feel 161
Communication 162
Luxury 163
Poem 164
Hampton, Virginia 165
Poetry Is a Trestle 166
Something To Be Said For Silence 167
Africa 169
Swaziland 171
A Very Simple Wish 172
Night 174
Poetry 175
Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day 179
Introspection 182
Forced Retirement 184
The New Yorkers 187
Crutches 191
Boxes 193
Poem 195
A Poem Off Center 198
Age 200
Life Cycles 203
Adulthood II 205
Habits 207
Gus 210
Choices 214
Photography 216
The Beep Beep Poem 217
Woman 219
Poem (for EMA) 220
The Rose Bush 222
Patience 223
Make Up 224
Winter 226
You Are There 227
Turning (I need a better title) 229
A Poem of Friendship 231
Being and Nothingness 232
The Moon Shines Down 233
That Day 234
Charting the Night Winds 239
Lorraine Hansberry 241
Hands: For Mother's Day 245
This Is Not for John Lennon 248
Mirrors 251
Linkage 254
Charles White 257
The Drum 259
A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 260
Eagles 261
Her Cruising Car 262
Harvest 266
Sky Diving 269
A Journey 270
Resignation 271
I Wrote a Good Omelet 274
Three/Quarters Time 275
Cancers 276
I Am She 278
You Were Gone 279
A Poem for langston hughes 283
But Since You Finally Asked 287
Title Index 289
First Line Index 291
Alternate Title(s): Poems.
Notes: LCCN: 95031646
ISBN: 0688140475
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Physical Description: xi, 292 p. ; 25 cm
OCLC Number: 32820001
ISBN/ISSN: 0688140475

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