Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea - by Nikki Giovanni (Paperback)

About the Book

"One of her best collections to date." --EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni's poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of readers worldwide. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Giovanni turns her gaze toward the state of the world around her, and offers a daring, resonant look inside her own self as well.

Book Synopsis

"One of her best collections to date." --Essence

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni's poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of readers worldwide. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Giovanni turns her gaze toward the state of the world around her, and offers a daring, resonant look inside her own self as well.

"If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified -- and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts." -- The Washington Post

From the Back Cover

A resonant, powerful collection fromone of America's preeminent poets.

In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns herpen to nature and the environment, the might and grace ofwomen, her battle with cancer, the relationships betweenmothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more.

Review Quotes

"A necessary treasure, its beauty is a living patchwork of imagination, practice, compassion, lack of predjudice and good sense....[Giovanni] is deftyly capable of providing answers, using verse as truth--to paint the human soul entire." - africana.com
"One of her best collections to date." - Essence
"An embracing, uplifting, and sustaining voice." - Booklist
"Giovanni remains an architect of life observtions....The world is a richer place for her three-decade body of work, which becomes a volume thicker with the release of Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea." - Miami Herald