Quilting the black-eyed pea : poems and not quite poems
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Published
New York : William Morrow, [2002].
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0060099526, 9780060099527, 9780060099534, 0060099534
Physical Desc
xii, 110 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : William Morrow, [2002].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0060099526, 9780060099527, 9780060099534, 0060099534
UPC
9780060099527
Notes
Description
A collection of 50 new poems, sketches, and meditations charts new territory, including popular culture and life in America, the poet's own battle with illness, relationships between mothers and their children, legendary historical figures, the South, the recent terrorist attacks, and Giovanni's own childhood. When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and influential poets of the era. Now, Giovanni continues to stand as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape. When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and influential poets of the era. Now, Giovanni continues to stand as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape. In a career spanning over thirty years, Giovanni has created a body of work that's become vital and essential to our American consciousness. This collection of new poems is a masterpiece that explores the ecstatic union between self and community. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is an extraordinarily intimate collection. Each poem bears our revered cultural icon's trademark of the unfalteringly political and the intensely personal: The elegant "What We Miss" exalts the might and grace of women, while "Swinging on a Rainbow" rejoices about the spaces in which we read. Giovanni commemorates Africa and her family legacy in the majestic "Symphony of the Sphinx" and contemplates our America in the heartbreaking "Desperate Acts" and "9:11:01 He Blew It." And in the dreamy "Making James Baldwin" and dazzling "Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea," Giovanni gives us reason to comfort, to share, to love, to change and to be human. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is Nikki Giovanni's meditation on humanity and soul. It's her revelatory gaze at the world in which we live -- and her confession on the world she dreams we will one day call home. Nikki Giovanni is a national treasure as she once again confirms her place as one of America's most powerful truth tellers and beloved daughters.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Giovanni, N. (2002). Quilting the black-eyed pea: poems and not quite poems (First edition.). William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giovanni, Nikki. 2002. Quilting the Black-eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems. William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giovanni, Nikki. Quilting the Black-eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems William Morrow, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Giovanni, Nikki. Quilting the Black-eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems First edition., William Morrow, 2002.
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