In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire.
Here romantic love--and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart--is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets..
Yet just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love--what she calls the antidote.
In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private: a mother\'s passing, a sister\'s too, and a massacre on the campus where she teaches.
An instant classic, that book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed notions of Love in ways that were delightfully unexpected.
With Bicycles , she\'s collected Poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems .
Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her Poems move readers of all hues and generations.
In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire
