Bicycles

Love Poems

Hardcover, 128 pages

Published Jan. 13, 2009 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-172645-3
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OCLC Number:
232977474

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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 …

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  • Literature & Fiction -- Authors, A-Z -- ( G ) -- Giovanni, Nikki
  • Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Love Poems
  • Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Single Authors -- United States
  • Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- African American
  • Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Poetry

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