From one of America’s most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni’s early work!

Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures.Gloria Naylor

When Nikki Giovannis poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial artists of our time. More than 50 years later, Giovanni still stands as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace Americas political and poetic landscape. This timeless classic brings readers Nikki Giovanni’s poems from her books Black Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Those Who Ride the Night Winds.

Stirring, provocative, and resonant, these poems heralded the arrival of an indelible literary voice that resounds to this day.

“If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts.” The Washington Post