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kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
5.0
This actually made me feel a bit of comfort after the recent election. It's not that Giovanni's poetry is sweetness and light, but more of a controlled rage. And in that rage is a sense of comfort, strangely enough.
tallblackguy's review against another edition
5.0
Nikki Giovanni is that aunt who knows things, who you love to visit because she gets you, and will tell you things that you remember, and understand years later in a poof of clarity.
I've loved her poetry and prose for years, and I bought this while browsing the bookstore and no one had told me that she had a book out. Sure, it's missing some of her later work, particularly the Virginia Tech stuff, and the cutoff of 1998 is...weird, but this is a great compendium of the stuff she was writing to establish herself as a grand poet.
I've loved her poetry and prose for years, and I bought this while browsing the bookstore and no one had told me that she had a book out. Sure, it's missing some of her later work, particularly the Virginia Tech stuff, and the cutoff of 1998 is...weird, but this is a great compendium of the stuff she was writing to establish herself as a grand poet.
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