Nikki Giovanni

Blues: For All the Changes (eBook, ePUB)

New Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts." The Washington Post

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061978876
• Artikelnr.: 38004569

Autorenporträt

Nikki Giovanni (19432024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, grew up in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she was also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, the Frost Medal, as well as thirty-one honorary degrees and an Emmy Award. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat speciesMicronycteris giovanniaewas named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher and honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.