The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Chronology

Black Feeling Black Talk

Detroit Conference of Unity and Art (For HRB)

On Hearing “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”

You Came, Too

Poem (For TW)

Poem (For BMC No. 1)

Our Detroit Conference (For Don L. Lee)

Poem (For Dudley Randall)

Poem (For BMC No. 2)

Personae Poem (For Sylvia Henderson)

Poem (For PCH)

Poem (No Name No. 1)

Poem (For BMC No. 3)

Black Separatism

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails (For Barbara Crosby)

Poem (No Name No. 2)

The True Import of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro (For Peppe, Who Will Ultimately Judge Our Efforts)

A Short Essay of Affirmation Explaining Why (With Apologies to the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Poem (No Name No. 3)

Wilmington Delaware

Letter to a Bourgeois Friend Whom Once I Loved (And Maybe Still Do If Love Is Valid)

I’m Not Lonely

Love Poem (For Real)

For an Intellectual Audience

Black Power (For All the Beautiful Black Panthers East)

Seduction

Word Poem (Perhaps Worth Considering)

Black Judgement

The Dance Committee (Concerning Jean-Lon Destin)

Of Liberation

Poem for Black Boys (With Special Love to James)

Concerning One Responsible Negro with Too Much Power

Reflections on April 4, 1968

The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Litany for Peppe

Nikki-Rosa

The Great Pax Whitie

Intellectualism

Universality

Knoxville, Tennessee

Records

Adulthood (For Claudia)

From a Logical Point of View

Dreams

Revolutionary Music

Beautiful Black Men (With compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name)

Woman Poem

Ugly Honkies, or The Election Game and How to Win It

Cultural Awareness

For Saundra

Balances

For a Poet I Know

For Teresa

My Poem

Black Judgements (Of bullshit niggerish ways)

Re: Creation

For Tommy

Two Poems: From Barbados

For Harold Logan Murdered by “persons unknown” cause he wanted to own a Black club on Broadway

No Reservations (for Art Jones)

Alone

For Two Jameses (Ballantine and Snow) In iron cells

For Gwendolyn Brooks

Autumn Poems

Rain

Poem for Lloyd

Housecleaning

Poem for Aretha

Revolutionary Dreams

Walking Down Park

Kidnap Poem

The Genie in the Jar (for Nina Simone)

All I Gotta Do

The Game Of Game

Master Charge: Blues

The Lion In Daniel’s Den (for Paul Robeson, Sr.)

For A Lady of Pleasure Now Retired

2nd Rapp

A Robin’s Poem

Alabama Poem

Poem For Unwed Mothers (to be sung to “The Old F.U. Spirit”)

12 Gates: To The City

Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)

A Poem/Because It Came As A Surprise To Me

Oppression

Toy Poem

Some Uses For Them Not Stated

Poem For Flora

Sometimes

Poem For My Nephew (Brother C. B. Soul)

Yeah But

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like

How Do You Write A Poem?

And Sometimes I Sit

I Want To Sing

Ever Want To Crawl

My House

Legacies

Mothers

A Poem for Carol (May She Always Wear Red Ribbons)

A Fishy Poem

Winter Poem

Conversation

Rituals

Poem for Stacia

The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be

The Only Song I’m Singing

The Butterfly

I Remember

A Certain Peace

When I Nap

Mixed Media

Just a New York Poem

[Untitled]

The Wonder Woman (A New Dream for Stevie Wonder)

Categories

Straight Talk

Scrapbooks

When I Die

[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner)

My Tower (For Barb and Anthony)

Poem (For Nina)

Africa I

Africa II

They Clapped

Poem (For Anna Hedgeman and Alfreda Duster)

Atrocities

Nothing Makes Sense

I Laughed When I Wrote It (Don’t You Think It’s Funny?)

On Seeing Black Journal and Watching Nine Negro Leaders “Give Aid and Comfort to the Enemy” to Quote Richard Nixon

And Another Thing

We

My House

The Women and the Men

The Women Gather (for Joe Strickland)

Once a Lady Told Me

Each Sunday

The December of My Springs

The Life I Led

Mother’s Habits

The Way I Feel

Communication

Luxury

Poem

Hampton, Virginia

Poetry Is a Trestle

The Laws of Motion (for Harlem Magic)

Something to Be Said for Silence

Africa

Swaziland

A Very Simple Wish

Night

Poetry

Always There Are the Children

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Introspection

Forced Retirement

The New Yorkers

Crutches

Boxes

Poem

A Poem Off Center

The Winter Storm

Age

Because

Their Fathers

Life Cycles

Adulthood II

Habits

Fascinations

Gus (for my father)

Choices

Photography

The Beep Beep Poem

A Poem for Ed and Archie

Woman

Space

Poem (for EMA)

The Rose Bush (for Gordon)

Patience

Make Up

Winter

You Are There

A Statement on Conservation

Turning (I need a better title)

A Response (to the rock group Foreigner)

A Poem of Friendship

Being and Nothingness (to quote a philosopher)

The Moon Shines Down

That Day

Those Who Ride the Night Winds

Charting the Night Winds

Lorraine Hansberry: An Emotional View

Hands: For Mother’s Day

This Is Not for John Lennon (and this is not a poem)

Mirrors (for Billie Jean King)

Linkage (for Phillis Wheatley)

Charles White

The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Eagles (a poem for Lisa)

Flying Underground (for the children of Atlanta)

Her Cruising Car: A Portrait of Two Small Town Girls

The Cyclops in the Ocean

Harvest (for Rosa Parks)

Reflections/On a Golden Anniversary

Love: Is a Human Condition

Sky Diving

A Journey

Resignation

I Wrote a Good Omelet

Three/Quarters Time

Cancers (not necessarily a love poem)

A Word for Me Also

I Am She (for Nancy)

The Room With the Tapestry Rug

Wild Flowers

Love Thoughts

You Were Gone

A Song for New-Ark

Occasional Poems

Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (October 16, 1970)

A Poem for langston hughes

But Since You Finally Asked (A Poem Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Slave Memorial at Mount Vernon)

Stardate Number 18628.190

Brother Brother Brother (the Isley Brothers of Lincoln Heights)

Afterword:

Notes to the Poems

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

About the Author

Other Books by Nikki Giovanni

Copyright

About the Publisher