Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid - Hardcover

Giovanni, Nikki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688156975 ISBN 13: 9780688156978

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Title: Chasing Utopia( A Hybrid) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: NikkiGiovanni <>Publisher: WilliamMorrow&Company

About this title

Review:

"Giovanni has long been a force for literary exuberance and social responsibility. In her latest accessible, teasing, and poignant collection, she offers straightforward, plain-speaking, sneakily resonant poems . . . she celebrates the opportunity to 'be a truth giver / contribute / something beautiful and useful to the world.'"--Booklist

"This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet's power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America's treasured poet."--San Francisco Book Review

Giovanni has long been a force for literary exuberance and social responsibility. In her latest accessible, teasing, and poignant collection, she offers straightforward, plain-speaking, sneakily resonant poems . . . she celebrates the opportunity to be a truth giver / contribute / something beautiful and useful to the world. --Booklist"

This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet s power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America s treasured poet. --San Francisco Book Review"

-Giovanni has long been a force for literary exuberance and social responsibility. In her latest accessible, teasing, and poignant collection, she offers straightforward, plain-speaking, sneakily resonant poems . . . she celebrates the opportunity to 'be a truth giver / contribute / something beautiful and useful to the world.'---Booklist

-This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet's power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America's treasured poet.---San Francisco Book Review

From the Back Cover:

Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food--food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs--this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup.

With Chasing Utopia, Giovanni demands that the prosaic--flowers, birdsong, win-ter--be seen as poetic, and reaffirms once again why she is as energetic, "remarkable" (Gwendolyn Brooks), "wonderful" (Marian Wright Edelman),"outspoken, prolific, energetic" (New York Times), and relevant as ever.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0688156975
• ISBN 13: 9780688156978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 143