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Love Poems

By Nikki Giovanni
Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni digital book - Fable

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In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.

From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered.

Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's most distinguished poets and powerful truth-tellers.

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“I decided to read this one and "A Good Cry" in light of Knoxville-native poet Nikki Giovanni's death last week, and I'm very grateful that I did. These poems paint the full spectrum of love: romantic, flirtatious, giddy love; grieving, lamenting love; brotherly, friendship love; old, weathered love; the love that drives righteous anger when something you love is being manipulated or corrupted. Several touching poems written as tributes to 2Pac, Langston Hughes, and others. Giovanni has a lovely way of putting words to abstract, amorphous feelings and instincts. What an absolutely brilliant writer, and what a loss that she's gone.”
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes“A poetry book full of all kinds of love. Really brought out my own love towards those in my life. Beautifully written.”

About Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, grew up in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she was also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, as well as thirty-one honorary degrees and an Emmy Award. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat species—Micronycteris giovanniae—was named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher, she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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