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. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles , she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems . An instant classic, that book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni redis-covered love--what she calls the antidote. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061726451
ISBN-13
9780061726453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69554662
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bicycles : Love Poems
Author
Nikki Giovanni
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, American / African American, General, Essays
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3557.I55b53 2009
Reviews
"Easily one of [Giovanni's] most powerful offerings to date." -- Essence "Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni's warmth and authenticity as by her words." -- Christian Science Monitor, 'Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni's warmth and authenticity as by her words.' (Christian Science Monitor)