6/24/2023 0 Comments A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni![]() Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life the poets and thinkers who have influenced her and the students who have surrounded her. Shes been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. ![]() One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her.Īs energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. Tittle : A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter Author : Nikki Giovanni Pages : 111 pages Publisher : William Morrow Language : ISBN-10 : 0062399454 ISBN-13 : 9780062399458. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. ![]() ![]() The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. ![]()
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