The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni : 1968-1998

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful, Painful and Deep from the Soul
Review: If you held in your hands the five hundred plus pages in Nikki Giovanni's latest work, you could count yourself lucky. Anytime a skilled poet looks back across life and shares pure insights with the world - we are all lucky.

In Collected, we are treated to a view of the world that goes back to the sixties and takes rapid-fire photographs through the nineties.

Giovanni's poetry ranges from sentimental and introspective to irreverent and militant. It is a broad range of feelings about love, prejudice, injustice and living in one's own skin.

There are so many interesting entries in this book. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day deals with the frailty of human existence. For Harold Logan is dedicated to a man murdered after daring to open a Black club on Broadway. A Certain Peace talks about enjoying time alone and allowing others the freedom to do the same. All are good.

Rich with texture, Giovanni's Collected feels like the opening of a soul. More and more and over and over, her poetry taps into the psyche and brings forth memories as much for Giovanni as for the reader.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful, Painful and Deep from the Soul
Review: If you held in your hands the five hundred plus pages in Nikki Giovanni?s latest work, you could count yourself lucky. Anytime a skilled poet looks back across life and shares pure insights with the world ? we are all lucky.

In Collected, we are treated to a view of the world that goes back to the sixties and takes rapid-fire photographs through the nineties.

Giovanni?s poetry ranges from sentimental and introspective to irreverent and militant. It is a broad range of feelings about love, prejudice, injustice and living in one?s own skin.

There are so many interesting entries in this book. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day deals with the frailty of human existence. For Harold Logan is dedicated to a man murdered after daring to open a Black club on Broadway. A Certain Peace talks about enjoying time alone and allowing others the freedom to do the same. All are good.

Rich with texture, Giovanni?s Collected feels like the opening of a soul. More and more and over and over, her poetry taps into the psyche and brings forth memories as much for Giovanni as for the reader.