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A review by lizshayne
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This was an interstitial book, with bits and pieces of it read while doing other things and so ideas and snatches of it stand out - the way Giovanni writes about love, about the physical objects and the doing for and making do that make up love.
And the stories of oppression and what it takes to just...survive. To hope in the universe that one day some child or child's child's or even further along with live and love and delight because you kept on.
I found Giovanni because someone posted her spider poem online and it immediately spoke to my soul. I'm not sure any of these caught me quite so utterly, but I appreciated them all.
(For those wondering, I'm talking about Allowables.)
And the stories of oppression and what it takes to just...survive. To hope in the universe that one day some child or child's child's or even further along with live and love and delight because you kept on.
I found Giovanni because someone posted her spider poem online and it immediately spoke to my soul. I'm not sure any of these caught me quite so utterly, but I appreciated them all.
(For those wondering, I'm talking about Allowables.)