Love Poems

by Nikki Giovanni

Book Overview

In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.

From the revolutionary Seduction to the tender new poem, Just a Simple Declaration of Love, from the whimsical I Wrote a Good Omelet to the elegiac All Eyez on U, written for Tupac Shakur,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688149898
• ISBN13: 9780688149895
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

A Joy To Read!

Giovanni's compilation of hip love poems is one of the best I've read in years. Moving away from the politics that her poetry is often well-known for, Giovanni's quirky, witty, and romantic poems will leave anyone in the mood to get intimate! Highly recommended!

Giovanni's "Love Poems" a Hit

I thouroughly enjoyed this copulation of works by Giovanni. I had the pleasure of reading earlier offerings by her and was pleased with her style and grace. To enjoy her is to understand where she has come from and where she is going. A strong voice of today as well as in the 60's, and keeps on getting stronger. Reading this makes you want to write your own love poems, in your way and in your own style. Giovanni brings out what we thought we have either lost or forgotten about either relationships past or present, and takes us on a journey into a world she doesn't always takes us, a more private, intimate world. Though I KNOW she had reserved a lot of the more intense feelings that I hope she may share with us all,..one day.

Honest, invigorating, fun

Nikki Giovanni's Love Poems are exciting, intriguing, and she really isn't afraid to express her thoughts. I absolutely loved it.

Love Poem is a treasure and so is Nikki

Hide "Love Poems" behind all those other scholarly, trendy, "book club-y" books - Hide it like you hide your new Victoria's Secret from you old lover - only to surprise him later. And when the time is right, do so. "Love Poems" adds a wonderful twist. It is real, seductive, poignant, and everything love is but you're afraid to stay out. loud. I LOVE IT & so does my BELOVED.