Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

"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.

Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, was raised in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she was also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, as well as twenty-seven honorary degrees. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat species--Micronycteris giovanniae--was named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher, she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
  
• Publish Date: December 28, 2010
  
• Pages: 128
  
• Dimensions: 5.56 X 9.23 X 0.39 inches | 0.3 pounds
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780060099534
  
• BISAC Categories: American - African American, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black, Women Authors