Bicycles: Love Poems - Hardcover

Giovanni, Nikki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061726451 ISBN 13: 9780061726453

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2009

Synopsis

A new collection by the award-winning writer of Love Poems evaluates poignant and tragic experiences from the past decade, from the losses of a mother and sister to the shooting at Virginia Tech, where she works as a professor of English. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni's warmth and authenticity as by her words."--Christian Science Monitor

"Easily one of [Giovanni's] most powerful offerings to date."--Essence

Easily one of [Giovanni s] most powerful offerings to date. --Essence"

Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni s warmth and authenticity as by her words. --Christian Science Monitor"

-Easily one of [Giovanni's] most powerful offerings to date.---Essence

-Bicycles is powered as much by Giovanni's warmth and authenticity as by her words.---Christian Science Monitor

About the Author:

Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061726451
• ISBN 13: 9780061726453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 109