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Synopsis
Presents a selection of poetry dedicated to individuals who were unafraid of trying to make changes or of going against the tide, with poems about friends, lovers, mother, the poet herself, and notable personalities
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About the Author
Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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The Drum
(for Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The drums...Pa-Rum...the rat-tat-tat...of drums...
The Pied Piper...after leading the rats...to death...took
the children...to dreams...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
The big bass drums...the kettles roar...the sound of animal
flesh...resounding against the wood...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
Kunta Kinte was making a drum...when he was captured
...Pa-Rum...
Thoreau listened...to a different drum...rat-tat-tat-Pa-
Rum...
King said just say...I was a Drum Major...for peace...
Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-rum...
Drums of triumph...Drums of pain...Drums of life...Funeral
drums...Marching drums...Drums that call...Pa-Rum
Pa-Rum...the Drums that call...rat-tat-tat...the Drums
are calling...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-Rum...
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Those Who Ride the Night Winds
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book is dedicated to the courage and fortitude of those who ride the night winds-who are the day trippers and midnight cowboys-who in sonic solitude or the hazy hell of habit know-that for all the devils and gods-for all the illnesses and drugs to cure them-Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure-and are determined to push us into the next century, galaxy-possibility." This 1983 first printing beautifully presents poems dedicated to Lorraine Hansberry and John Lennon, to Billie Jean King and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Robert Kennedy and to Phillis Wheatley and to the children of Atlanta, to "Those Who Ride the Night Winds." This is an admittedly worn but presentable first edition of this important collection of poems by globally beloved poet Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), the "Princess of Black Poetry," defining voice of the Black Arts and Civil Rights movements, recipient of the Langston Hughes Medal, the inaugural Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, the American Book Award, and seven-time winner of the NAACP Image Award. Stated First Edition, with full number line indicating First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 62pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with light soiling and sunning to panels and small neat tears and curling to edges. Bound in orangle paper over boards, with spine backed in white cloth and lettered in dark brown. Moderate wear to binding, with dust soiling and some mottling to boards, gentle bumping to extremiteis, and slight lean to spine. Gift inscription dated 1983 to front free endpaper. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 17712
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