Bicycles

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bicycles
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Nikki Giovanni
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 140,Width 176
Category/GenrePoetry
Poetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780061726491
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication Date 2 February 2010
Publication Country United States

Description

In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems. An instant classic, that book-romantic, bold, and erotic-expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private: a mother's passing, a sister's too, and a massacre on the campus where she teaches. Yet just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love-what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love-and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart-is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.

Author Biography

Poet, activist, mother and professor Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Over the span of thirty years, Nikki has received nineteen honorary degrees from colleges and universities.

Reviews

"Easily one of [Giovanni's] most powerful offerings to date." -- Essence "Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni's warmth and authenticity as by her words." -- Christian Science Monitor