Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Nikki Giovanni
(Author)
Description
"One of her best collections to date." --EssenceQuilting 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.
Product Details
Price
$15.99
$14.71
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Publish Date
December 28, 2010
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.56 X 9.23 X 0.39 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780060099534
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About the Author
Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Reviews
"One of her best collections to date."--Essence
"An embracing, uplifting, and sustaining voice."--Booklist
"An embracing, uplifting, and sustaining voice."--Booklist
