Nikki Giovanni

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (eBook, ePUB)

Poems and Not Quite Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of her best collections to date. Essence

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni's poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of readers worldwide. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Giovanni turns her gaze toward the state of the world around her, and offers a daring, resonant look inside her own self as well.

"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: 9780061978975
• Artikelnr.: 38003844

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.