Books by Nikki Giovanni
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review 1: • Includes an Audio CD, which has many of the poems or songs that are included in the anthology. • Features hip hop favorites - Tupac, A Tribe Called Quest, and Queen Latifah. • Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes have poems featured. • Concludes with excerpts of Dr. Martin Luther K...
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review 1: A little disappointing. The two poems about school shootings felt really out of place, too, in what was supposed to be a collection of love poems. I did like part of one (non-shooting-related) poem quite a bit:"I know howthe mermaidfeelsYou give upyour gillsso you can'tgo backto ...
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review 1: Don't get me wrong, I love Nikki Giovanni. I love the connections she encourages us to make, the warmth she brings to her work, the questions she asks and the worlds she asks us to imagine. But this book wasn't my favorite. While there are a few selections I really liked ("Podcas...