A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter

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A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter

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what we learn from tears and laughter

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Nikki Giovanni

Creator

• Giovanni, Nikki

Author

• Giovanni, Nikki

Subject

• African American women poets
• African American women poets
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Poetry
• American poetry
• American poetry -- 21st century
• American poetry -- African American authors
• American poetry -- African American authors
• American poetry -- Women authors
• American poetry -- Women authors
• American poetry. -- African American authors
• Autobiographical poetry
• Autobiographical poetry
• POETRY -- American | African American
• Poetry
• Poetry
• Poetry
• Poésie
• Poésie américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains
• Poésie autobiographique
• Poétesses noires américaines
• Noirs américains -- Poésie
• 2000-2099

Genre

• Poetry
• Poésie
• Poésie autobiographique
• Autobiographical poetry

Language

eng

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."--
• A celebrated American poet offers an intimate, affecting and revealing look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart, taking us into her confidence as she ruminates on her life and the people who have helped shape her into the woman she has become

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• Poems., Selections

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From publisher's description

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YDX

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no index present

Literary form

poetry