The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni
| Author(s): | Giovanni, Nikki |
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| Location: |
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| Subjects: | Women--United States--Poetry African American women--Poetry African Americans--Poetry |
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| 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 |