Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions - Softcover

Giovanni, Nikki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805049037 ISBN 13: 9780805049039

Publisher: Holt, 1996

Synopsis

Nikki Giovanni created this book by asking her friends--people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston--for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers, then went to a group of writers in their nineties for their thoughts. "Grand Mothers" celebrates those special women in every culture who preseve heritage and prepare the future.

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Review:

"While contributions from established writers....act as lures, the real treasure here are offered by relatively unkown authors. A diverse and moving tribute." --Publishers Weekly

"The portrait of a grandmotherhood that comes into focus here is three-demensional and full-blooded, and the deversity of setiment and opinion as to what a grandmother means is the very quality that makes this collection such an enthralling, authentic read." --Voice of Youth Advocates

About the Author:

Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.

She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five "Living Legends." Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry.

Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0805049037
• ISBN 13: 9780805049039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192