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Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being A Black Poet

Nikki Giovanni

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Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being A Black Poet

In the lyrical, irreverent, and tough-talking voice that resounds in her poetry, Nikki Giovanni explores one of the most tumultuous periods of our history. Her essays take us from her childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, through her work in the militant Black revolution of the sixties, to her emergence as an acclaimed poet. Interweaving warm recollections of her personal history -- the enduring strengths of her family, the birth of her child, the rewards of writing -- with incisive vignettes of cultural and political history, including her often surprising opinions of LeRoi Jones, Angela Davis, Lena Horne, Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and many others, Giovanni chronicles the changing moods of society as she reveals the inner and outer worlds of a Black woman in twentieth-century America.

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Publisher
Penguin Mass Market
Year
1976
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Black identity and cultureCivil rights movementPoetry and creative life

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