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Barcode37821002547996
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe New book : poems, letters, blurbs, and things / Nikki Giovanni.
AuthorGiovanni, Nikki, author.
Call No811.54 GIO
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9780063447523
Personal Name Giovanni, Nikki, author.
Title Statement The New book : poems, letters, blurbs, and things / Nikki Giovanni.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
Physical Description ix, 131 pages ; 22 cm.
Formatted Contents Note All I really have -- Why I'm thankful -- Yes -- Won't you be my neighbor? -- Fear: eat in or take out? -- Toni Morrison -- Waiting for Jason -- For Scott -- The longest way round -- The sterling silver mirror (for DePaul University) -- The coal cellar -- The bus didn't stop -- Reading other people's poems -- Vote (2020) -- Raise your hand (in favor of immigrants) -- Private secrets (like or no like) -- March on Washington 10th anniversary -- Look (something may be there) -- A praise song for Roots by Alex Haley -- My contract with America (or is that America's contract on negroes?) -- Re: MoveOn's love letter to essential workers -- Vote 2024 (it matters) -- Vines -- Some Christmas questions and one answer -- The nature conservancy -- A keynote address -- Serena -- Girl talk (lyrics) -- Floating -- The three riders -- The train ride -- My first visit with Ashley -- Little brother/big brother (for Morris and David) -- Mating time (for a lonely meteorite looking for love) -- Some complain -- When water could not encourage you -- For the 2023 graduates of Roanoke College -- Answers -- Introducing Knoxville (for Bill Walsh and Reinhardt University) -- A blues for mother -- A friendship (re: breaking rules) -- Tomorrow -- Her dreams -- Altars -- Home (for Beauford Delaney) -- Letter to the editor -- Graduation poem -- A dedication -- Fall in love (for Artemis) -- 1038 burns -- 400 Mulvaney Street -- Bay leaves -- Edna Lewis: after hours in the watershed -- Detroit -- An angel like Ashley -- January 26, 2020 (the death of Kobe Bryant) -- Announcing spring (happy birthday Emma Joahanne Thomas-Smith) -- Avec vous -- Betty Wills Jacoby Skinner: 7 April 1925-31 July 2020 -- A toast to poems -- Commencement during Covid -- Craft -- A recipe for the New York Times (sent to Elizabeth A. Harris) -- The Christmas letter -- 21 May 2020 -- Fisk: a song of freedom -- Cotton in the arms of the mountains -- Where was the music -- Kevin Powell 2020 -- Ten descriptions of me (for Mark Koplik) -- Prose to the people -- Poems (for the Blacksburg Books Community Project) -- We have prevailed -- Winter homes -- Fathers (for twg).
Summary, Etc. "For decades, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. 'The New Book' is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about Giovanni's family history and the small pleasures of her richly lived life. With this collection--that also features short prose, letters, and one especially memorable recipe--Giovanni reaffirms her status as a giant of literature, a canny truth-teller, an indispensable radical orator, and one of America's preeminent cultural critics. It is a book to be savored...and shared." --jacket.
Summary, Etc. "Nikki Giovanni's extraordinary final collection - a landmark of American literature - speaks to the fury of our current political moment while reflecting on the tragedies and triumphs of her early life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term American poetry Women authors.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women poets.
Index Term-Genre/Form Literature.
Index Term-Genre/Form Poetry.

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