Nikki Giovanni

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062995308
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Make Me Rain written by Nikki Giovanni and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences. In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as “I Come from Athletes” and “Rainy Days”—calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)” and “”When I Could No Longer”—her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life. Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062399470
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Good Cry written by Nikki Giovanni and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hip Hop Speaks to Children with CD written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062308130
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Chasing Utopia written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America’s most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us. “This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet’s power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America’s treasured poet.”—San Francisco Book Review The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food—food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs—this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup. With Chasing Utopia, Giovanni demands that the prosaic—flowers, birdsong, winter—be seen as poetic, and reaffirms once again why she is as energetic, "remarkable" (Gwendolyn Brooks), "wonderful" (Marian Wright Edelman),"outspoken, prolific, energetic" (New York Times), and relevant as ever.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312376024
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Rosa written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061734136
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Acolytes written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534404937
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book I Am Loved written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish. There is nothing more important to a child than to feel loved, and this gorgeous gathering of poems written by Nikki Giovanni celebrates exactly that. Hand-selected by Newbery honoree Ashley Bryan, he has, with his masterful flourish of color, shape, and movement, added a visual layering that drums the most impartant message of all to young, old, parent, child, grandparent, and friend alike: You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. As a bonus, one page is mirrored, so children reading the book can see exactly who is loved—themselves!

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976997610
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book My House written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early reader book for independent reading for three to six year olds.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061977667
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work! “Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures.”—Gloria Naylor When Nikki Giovanni’s poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial artists of our time. More than 50 years later, Giovanni still stands as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America’s political and poetic landscape. This timeless classic brings readers Nikki Giovanni's poems from 1967 to 1983, from her books Black Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Those Who Ride the Night Winds. Stirring, provocative, and resonant, these poems heralded the arrival of an indelible literary voice that resounds to this day.

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Racism 101 written by Nikki Giovanni and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sharp and clean essays that cut to the bone of racism, by one of America's best writers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR