{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-nikki-giovanni","title":"Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony of a life's work from one of the commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the revolutionary \"The Great Pax Whitie\" and \"Poem for Aretha\" to the sublime \"Ego Tripping\" and the tender \"My House,\" these 150 mind-speaking, truth-telling poems are at once powerful yet sensual, angry yet affirming. Arranged chronologically, they reflect the changes Giovanni has endured as a Black woman, lover, mother, teacher, and poet. Here is the evocation of a nation's past and present—intensely personal and fiercely political—from one of our most compassionate, outspoken observers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins Publishers LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53773228736696,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/5905\/8872\/files\/6647564938cbe3fc02af485e470707dd579f10074dc339de6082a9535cd104c1.webp?v=1784134562","url":"https:\/\/e55804-c3.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-nikki-giovanni","provider":"Mississippi Museum of Art Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}