Research Catalog

Title

A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter / Nikki Giovanni.

Author

Giovanni, Nikki

Publication

• New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xi, 111 pages; 19 cm

Summary

"Poet, firebrand, mother, radical, healer, and sage, Nikki Giovanni has always been celebrated for her inspired and courageous voice. For decades, she has spoken out on the sensitive issues -- race and gender, violence and inequality -- that touch our national consciousness. As energetic and insightful as ever, Nikki Giovanni now offers us an intimate and affecting look at her personal history and the hidden corners of her own heart. 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 childhood. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and delight: 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. Giovanni 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. An essential work for our times and a moving chronicle of an artist's life. A Good Cry is another classic from the prolific and perennially relevant Nikki Giovanni."--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• African American women poets
• Black author
• American poetry
• Autobiographical poetry

Genre/Form

Autobiographical poetry.

Note

• Autobiographical poems.

Contents

Heritage (for Walter Leonard) -- Bread -- Bears in spring -- A poem for Joanne (all the time) -- Space: our frontier -- Nikki Giovanni: a look at the development of this small business -- A poem for Morris -- A haiku for Mars -- Ashley Bryan (on the joyous celebration of his ninetieth birthday) -- If I have to hospital -- Lincoln Heights sits -- Education early on -- Volleyball: a ballet (for #17) -- There is a school -- The past . . . the present . . . the future -- Konko in the rain (for and in debt to Kwame Alexander) -- Toure's feet -- Thirst -- For Ruby Dee -- Fisk: the class of 1964 -- Big Maybelle -- The tassel's worth the hassle: an introduction -- The fly on the wall -- Epicure (for Joe who cooks) -- On a snowy day (for Morgan who braved the weather) -- Black lives matter (not a hashtag) -- Step a little closer -- A poem (for Ethel Morgan Smith and Lucy) -- I married my mother -- We, too -- We marched (celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the sisterhood of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority) -- The diamond anniversary -- Rita Dove (at furious flower 2014) -- The old man of the mountain (for Charles Steger) -- Morning breakfast routines -- Poseidon hears his baby boy crying -- NYC (then & now) -- Surveillance -- Autumn soup (for President Timothy Sands) -- Hokie stone (for Tom Tillar) -- Introduction for Tim O'Brien -- Let's call it love -- L.E.A.P. for bridges (for Donna Maria Smith) -- Afeni (b. 22 January 1947-d. 2 May 2016) -- Remembering Maya -- A sincere apology -- Remembering Maya for Ebony magazine -- At times like these (for Maya Angelou) -- Summer storms -- Even as a little girl -- I play football (for Kevin Jones) -- The museum (at last).

Call Number

Sc C 18-85

ISBN

• 9780062399458
• 0062399454

OCLC

972439425

Author

Giovanni, Nikki, author.

Title

A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter / Nikki Giovanni.

Publisher

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc C 18-85